WORTH THE WAIT The Great Fire By Shirley Hazzard Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 278 pp. John B. Breslin Shirley Hazzard's last novel, The Transit of Venus (Penguin USA), was published in 1980...
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PASTORAL By the Lake John McGahern Alfred A. Knopf, $24, 336pp. John B. Breslin John McGahern's latest novel, the first since his celebrated Amongst Women won several awards and was shortlisted...
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John B. Breslin ANDRE DUBUS, R.I.P. A writer's writer In a review of Andre Dubus's Selected Stories, fellow novelist Anne Tyler commented about the risky ending of perhaps Dubus's best...
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BETWEEN A ROMP & REDEMPTION THE REST OF LIFE Three Novellas Mary Gordon Viking, $22, 257 pp. John B. Breslin Three stories; three women; four men (one a father) to whom the women are...
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Catechism and Q.E.D.! That sort of faith nual UCLA survey of college freshmen is a supernatural add on to natural...
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BOOKS Deeper than sex or politics The trade of interviewing has many Jacks (and Jills) but few masters, and that's all right in general since most subjects get the interviewers they deserve. But...
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BOOKS THE OTHER SIDE Mary Gordon Viking, $19.95, 386 pp. John B. Breslin The blight in their baggage Mary Gordon's latest novel is also her most ambitious both in length and, more importantly,...
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GHOSTS OF THE COLONIZED ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH Chinua Achebe Doubleday, $16.95, 216 pp. John B. Breslin It has been two decades since Chinua Achebe's last novel (A Man of the People), but...
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM MORE THE THAMATOS SYNDROME Walker Percy Farrar Straus & Giroux, $17.95, 372 pp. John B. Breslin In a recent interview in the Washington Post, Walker Percy chuckled...
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BITTERSWEET SIDES OF LIFE THE LAST WORTHLESS ETENIHG Andre Dubus Godine, $15.95, 214 pp. John B. Breslin Being a book addict has its rewards. I first dis- covered Andre Dubus's stories two...
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BOOKS. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS JOHN B. BRESLIN A Canterbury Tale: Experiences and Reflections, 1916-1976 JOHN COGLEY Seabury. $8.95 I never met John Cogley, though he was no stranger to America...
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