Book reviews: Fiction 1997

Ahlberg, Allan
Ahlberg, Janet
Peek-a-boo
The new flexability of the board book, 10/19/97

Askew, Rilla
The Mercy Seat
Blood brothers, 8/10/97

Auster, Paul
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
Art and money: can this marriage be saved?, 11/23/97

Barry, John M.
Rising Tide
What a great flood of 1927 washed away, 3/30/97

Bass, Rick
Where the Sea Used to Be
The scientist is a romantic, 11/30/97

Bauer, Douglas
The Book of Famous Iowans
Out of Iowa, 9/21/97

Baxter, Charles
Believers
Even-tempered, unflashy stories of America's heartland, 3/23/97

Beattie, Ann
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon
Falcon-crossed, 4/27/97

Bellow, Saul
The Actual
The real thing, 5/4/97

Berger, Suzanne
Body, Remember: A Memoir
Healing and renewal in the heart of disability , 2/16/97

Bernie, Suzanne
A Crime in the Neighborhood
Crimes and misdemeanors, 6/29/97

Bishop, Paul
Tequila Mockingbird
The good, the bad and the criminal, 10/26/97

Bloom, Amy
Love Invents Us
Love with the proper strangeness, 1/12/97

Bok, Derek
The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society
Healing and renewal in the heart of disability , 2/16/97

Brodkey, Harold
The World is the Home of Love and Death
Last stories by a man of reputation, 11/9/97

Bugge, Carole
The Star of India
Finding the distaff touch in the writing of mystery fiction, 12/28/97

Buchan, John
Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money
Art and money: can this marriage be saved?, 11/23/97

Bunting, Eve
I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert
Presenting whales, a mummy, a rooftop garden, a lone eagle, 12/7/97

Burgess, Anthony
The Doctor is Sick
All the aches, pains, and, maladies one could want, and more, 12/21/97

Butler, Robert Olen
The Deep Green Sea
His lover, his country, and himself, 12/28/97

Canning, Peter
American Dreamers: The Wallaces and Reader's Digest: An Insider's Story
Healing and renewal in the heart of disability , 2/16/97

Coel, Margaret
The Dream Stalker
The good, the badd, and the criminal, 10/26/97

Coleman, Reed
They Don't Play Stickball in Milwaukee
No mystery about these" 'G' is for good, 11/30/97

Cross, Amanda
The Puzzled Heart
Finding the distaff touch in the writing of mystery fiction, 12/28/97

Daniel, David
Murder at the Baseball Hall of Fame
Of baseball, spies, and the loved classic, 9/28/98

DeLillo, Don
Underworld
Blasts from the past, 9/28/98

Derbyshire, John
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream
The books that truely help the self are not in the self-help section, 9/28/97

Dobson, Joanne
Quieter Than Sleep
No mystery about these: 'G' is for good, 11/30/97

Dooling, Richard
Critical Care
All the aches, pains, and, maladies one could want, and more, 12/21/97

Eisenberg, Deborah
All Around Atlantis
Worlds Apart, 10/5/97

Eversz, Robert M.
Gypsy Hearts
The good, the bad and the criminal, 10/26/97

Freed, Lynn
The Mirror
What woman want as seen by novelists -- and by marketers, 10/26/97

Fitzgerald, Penelope
The Book Shop
Art and money: can this marriage be saved?, 11/23/97

Flood, John
Bag Men
Oh Chompsky, sanity, crime, and war, 3/16/97

Ford, Richard
Women with Men
Stasis of Grace, 6/22/97

Fox, Mem
Time for Bed
The new flexability of board books, 10/19/97

Frucht, Abby
Life Before Death
Telling a compelling story of one untimely death, 8/17/97

Fuentes, Carlos
Novel in Nine Stories
At the frontier, 11/16/97

Gerristen, Tess
Life Support
All the aches, pains, and, maladies one could want, and more, 12/21/97

Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha
What woman want as seen by novelists -- and by marketers, 10/26/97
The 'perfect' world of Geisha as seen from the imperfect inside, 9/28/97

Goldman, Francisco
The Ordinary Seaman
The voyage out, 2/16/97

Gowdy, Barbara
Mister Sandman
Child of light, 3/23/97

Greenway, Frank
King, Dave
The Snake Book
The parade of literary animals, 10/5/97

Harrison, Kathryn
The Kiss
Her father, herself, 3/2/97

Hillard, Robert L.
Surviving to Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews After Liberation
Healing and renewal in the heart of disability , 2/16/97

Homer Fagles, Robert
The Odyssey
Homeward bound, 4/20/97

Horse, Harry
A Friend for Little Bear
The parade of literary animals, 10/5/97

James, P. D.
A Certain Justice
Laying down the law, 11/16/97

Johnson, Denis
Already Dead: A California Gothic
Nietzsche Noir, 8/3/97

Johnson, Diane
Le Divorce
Portrait of a pop lady, 1/5/97

Kaufman, Natalie Hevener
Kay, Carol McGinnis
'G' Is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone
No mystery about these: 'G' is for good, 11/30/97

Kates, Erica
On the Couch: Great American Stories about Therapy
Books on the minds, the feelings, and on the winds of war, 1/26/97

King, Laurie
The Moor
Finding the distaff touch in the writing of mystery fiction, 12/28/97

Landsman, Anne
The Devil's Chimney
The good, the bad, the criminal, 10/26/97

Littell, Robert
Walking Back the Cat
Of baseball, spies, and the loved classic, 9/28/97

Lukas, J. Anthony
Big Trouble
Lukas's tale of labor v.s. owners in an epic clash, 10/5/97

Lynch, Thomas
The Undertaking
House of Morning, 7/27/97

Marias, Javier
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Love, death, irony, 11/9/97

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
News of a Kidnapping
Captive Nation, 6/1/97

Matthiessen, Peter
Lost Man's River
Dark in the wilderness, 12/14/97

McFarland, Dennis
A Face at the Window
Host of haunts, 3/16/97

McGrath, Patrick
Asylum
The good doctor, 2/16/97

Michaels, Anne
Fugitive Pieces
Ode to memory, 3/9/97

Montague, Dan
White Wings
Venturing onward, 7/27/97

Morrow, Bradford
Giovanni's Gift
Mood and mystery, 2/9/97

Moore, Marianne
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
The post modernist, 10/26/97

Moser, Madeline
Ever Heard of the Aardwolf?
The parade of literary animals, 10/5/97

Nadas, Peter
A Book of Memories
The great Hungarian novel, 9/7/97

O'Brien, Edna
Down by the River
Her own private Ireland, 5/25/97

Oates, Joyce Carol
Man Crazy
Terminal Velocity, 8/31/97

Oz, Amos
Panther in the Basement
Growing up, loyal to self and to nation, 10/5/97

Patchett, Ann
The Magician's Assistant
The prestidigitator's greatest act, 11/2/97

Phillips, Caryl
The Nature of Blood
Across time and cultures, the bitter legacy of hate, 6/1/97

Polito, Robert
Savage Art
With the proper selection, there is no need to fear the dark, 11/9/97

Preston, Richard
The Cobra Event
All the aches, pains, and, maladies one could want, and more, 12/21/97

Prose, Francine
Guided Tours of Hell
Inferno of irony, 1/19/97

Pynchon, Thomas
Mason & Dixon
Gravity's boundary, 5/4/97

Rayner, Richard Murder Book
No Mystery about these: 'G' is for good, 11/30/97

Richler, Mordecai
Barney's Version
The satirical, un-pc view from north of the border, 12/21/97

Roth, Philip
American Pastoral
Roth redux, 4/20/97

Ruelle, Karen Gray
The Book of Bedtimes
The new flexability of the board book, 10/19/97

Russo, Richard
Straight Man
College bound, 7/13/97

Selenic, Slobodan
Premeditated Murder
Ruin and reprise, 2/23/97

Shields, Carol
Larry's Party
Midway in Life's Journey, 9/14/97

Shuman, Robert
The Psychology of Chronic Illness: The Healing Work of Patients, Therapists & families
Healing and renewal in the heart of disability , 2/16/97

Skibell, Joseph
A Blessing on the Moon
From a pit of death, a search for redemption, 10/12/97

Slung, Michele
Murder & Other Acts of Literature
Finding the distaff in the writing of mystery fiction, 12/28/97

Small, David
The Gardener
Presenting whales, a mummy, a rooftop garden, a lone eagle, 12/7/97

Smith, Lee
Live Bottomless
Late dispatches from southern belldom, 9/21/97

Stark, Richard
Comeback
Of baseball, spies, and the loved classic, 9/28/98

Stephens, George E.
Yacovone, Donald
A Voice Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens
Healing and renewal in the heart of disability , 2/16/97

Stone, Robert
Bear and His Daughter
Authority of voice, 3/30/97

Tan, Maureen
a.k.a. Jane
The good, the bad, and the criminal, 10/26/97

Theroux, Paul
Sunrise with Sea Monsters
What women want as seen by novelists -- and marketers, 10/26/97

Thompson, Jim
The Nothing Man
With the proper selection, there's no need to fear the dark, 11/9/97

Trollope, Anthony
The Small House at the Allington
Art and money: can this marriage be saved?, 11/23/97

Updike, John
Toward the End of Time
Autumn of the Patriarch, 10/19/97

Urquhart, Jane
The Underpainter
Seeing through the penimento, 10/19/97

Vaz, Katherine
Fado and Other Stories
Vaz's songs in the key of fate, 10/19/97

Vonnegut, Kurt
Timequake
So it went, 10/5/97

Waddler, Martin
Small Bear Lost
The parade of literary animals, 10/5/97

Wallace, Marilyn
The Best of Sisters in Crime
Finding the distaff touch in the writing of mystery fiction, 12/28/97

West, Paul
Terrestials: A Novel
The sky above, the earth below, the force of fate, 10/26/97

White, Edmund
The Farewell Symphony
The art of the dish, 9/17/97

Yorke, Margaret
A Question of Belief
Finding the distaff touch in the writing of mystery fiction, 12/28/97