The Exquisite Lightness of Helprin A Soldier in the Great War By Mark Helprin Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 792 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Free-lance writer On an August afternoon in...
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What if... a Chemist Told Stories The Sixth Day and Other Tales By Primo Levi Translated by Raymond Rosenthal Summit. 222 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Free-lance writer When, some...
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Grand Ambition The Storyteller By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Helen Lane Farrar Straus Giroux. 246pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Free-lance writer Mawo Vargas Llosa's latest...
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The Kis of Death The Encyclopedia of the Dead By Danilo Kis Farrar Straus Giroux. 199 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Fiction writer; free-lance critic The fable is an unpopular genre...
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LA RUTA MAYA' Treasures of the Guatemala Rain Forest By Alan Wade Guatemala City Guatemala has been trying to keep a low profile of late, in contrast with some of its unsettled neighbors....
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Rushdie in Wunderland The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie Viking. 547 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Fiction writer, free-lance critic '"To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta...
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An Epistemology of the Senses Under the Jaguar Sun By Italo Calvino Translated by William Weaver A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 86 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Alan...
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