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Wagner, Brace. I'll Let You Go. Villard. Jan. 2002. c.576p. ISBN 0-375-50002-2. $25.95. F Screenwriter Wagner's third Hollywood novel, following Force Majeure and I'm Losing You, is a California version [...]

*Vollmann, William T. Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. Vol. 3: Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Viking. Oct. 2001. c.714p. ISBN 0-670-91030-9. $40. [...]

Yarbrough, Steve. Visible Spirits. Knopf. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-375-41159-3. $23. F In the early years of the 20th century, the sleepy Mississippi Delta town of Loring is still coming to [...]

* Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar. Sept. 2001. c.576p. ISBN 0-374-12998-3. $25. F In this novel of breathtaking virtuosity, Franzen, whose debut, The Twenty-Seventh City, chronicled corruption and decline in [...]

* Highsmith, Patricia. The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. Norton. Aug. 2001. c.672p. ISBN 0-393-02031-2. $27.95. F Highsmith's growing posthumous reputation is based on her elegant literary thrillers, which rely [...]

Kennedy, A.L. Everything You Need. Knopf. Jul. 2001. c.560p. ISBN 0-375-40791-X. $25.95. F Nathan Staples is a successful middle-aged novelist who feels that he has squandered his talent writing thrillers. [...]

Canin, Ethan. Carry Me Across the Water. Random. May 2001. c.224p. LC 00-051812. ISBN 0-679-45679-1. $23.95. F Living alone in a Boston apartment after his wife's death, 78-year-old millionaire beer [...]

*Bradbury, Malcolm. To the Hermitage. Overlook, dist. by Penguin/Putnam. Apr. 2001. c.512p. ISBN 1-58567-131-2. $27.95. F The late Bradbury's final novel is a clever dual narrative that compares Denis Diderot's [...]

Brink, Andre. The Rights of Desire, Harcourt. Apr. 2001. c.320p. ISBN 0-15-100654-7. $25. F Ruben Olivier, a retired librarian, lives alone in an old family home in Cape Town, South [...]

Salter, James. Cassada. Counterpoint: Perseus. Jan. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 1-887178-89-9. $25. F Lieutenant Cassada is an ambitious young fighter pilot fresh out of flying school who has been assigned to [...]

Updike, John. Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel. Knopf. Nov. 2000. c.358p. LC 00-034906. ISBN 0-375-41113-5. $25. F At the end of Rabbit at Rest, the dying Rabbit [...]

*Bell, Madison Smartt. Master of the Crossroads. Pantheon. Oct. 2000. c.752p. LC 00-029835. ISBN 0-375-42056-8. $30. F The second installment in Bell's trilogy on the Haitian slave revolt of the [...]

Boyle, T.C. A Friend of the Earth. Viking. Sept. 2000. c.288p. ISBN 0-670-89177-0. $24.95. F The year is 2025, and global warming is a catastrophic reality; most mammalian species are [...]

Vollmann, William T. The Royal Family. Viking. Aug. 2000. c.777p. ISBN 0-670-89167-3. $40. F John Tyler is a successful San Francisco attorney with a yuppie lifestyle whose brother Henry is [...]

Rucker, Rudy. Gnarl! Four Walls Eight Windows. 2000. c.576p. ISBN 1-56858-159-9. $35; pap. ISBN 1-56858-158-0. $17. F Gnarly is surfer slang for complex wave conditions. Used as a noun, it [...]

Roth, Philip. The Human Stain. Houghton. May 2000. c.368p. ISBN 0-618-05945-8. $26. F Coleman Silk, a brilliant classics professor at sleepy Athena College in western Massachusetts, is forced into early [...]

Lanchester, John. Mr Phillips. Putnam. Apr. 2000. c.304p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-399-14604-0. $23.95. F Following his hugely successful debut novel, The Debt to Pleasure (LJ 6/1/96), narrated by the dazzling [...]

Antrim, Donald. The Verificationist. Knopf. Feb. 2000. c.192p. LC 99-31383. ISBN 0-375-40822-3. $21. F Tom, Antrim's narrator, chooses a tacky pancake joint on the wrong side of the tracks as [...]

Mallon, Thomas. Two Moons. Pantheon. Feb. 2000. c.320p. LC 99-34235. ISBN 0-375-40025-7. $24. F Thomas Hardy recognized the romantic potential of star-gazing in his novel Two on a Tower. Mallon's [...]

* Unsworth, Barry. Losing Nelson. Nan A. Talese: Doubleday. Oct. 1999. c.400p. LC 99-28757. ISBN 0-385-48652-9. $32.95. F Charles Cleasby is a reclusive scholar so obsessed with the British naval [...]

Mort, John. Soldier in Paradise. Southern Methodist Univ. Nov. 1999. c. 192p. LC 99-29858. ISBN 0-870-74440-2. $19.95. F In this fictional memoir, James Patrick Donnelly, a.k.a. 'Irish,' recalls his tour [...]

Topping, Seymour. The Peking Letter. HarperCollins. Sept. 1999. c.320p. ISBN 1-891620-35-5. $25. F In 1948, with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army in retreat, the last remnants of the U.S. military presence [...]

Frayn, Michael. Headlong. Metropolitan: Holt. Sept. 1999. c.340p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-8050-6285-8. $26. F Clay, a philosophy professor on sabbatical, has moved to the country with his wife and daughter [...]

Unsworth, Barry. Sugar and Rum. Norton. May 1999. c.256p. ISBN 0-393-31890-7. pap. $13. F Clive Benson, a noted historical novelist, has moved from London to Liverpool to research a book [...]

Dixon, Stephen. 30. Holt. May 1999. c.656p. ISBN 0-8050-5923-7. $30. F What more is there to say about Gould Bookbinder, the sex-obsessed antihero of Gould.' A Novel in Two Novels [...]

* Dexter, Pete. Spooner. Grand Central. Sept. 2009. c.480p. ISBN 978-0-446-540728. $26.99.F Warren Spooner bears an uncanny resemblance to his creator, National Book Award winner Dexter. Like Dexter, Spooner was […]

Fasman, Jon. The Unpossessed City. Penguin. Nov. 2008. c.339p. ISBN 978-159420-190-5. $24.95. F At 32, Jim Vilatzer is saddled with gambring debts that will take him years to pay off, [...]

Baxter, Charles. The Soul Thief. Pantheon. Feb. 2008. c.224p. ISBN 978-0-375-422522. $20. F Nathaniel Mason is a graduate student in early 1970s Buffalo. At a beer party one autumn night, [...]

Roth, Philip. Exit Ghost. Houghton. Oct. 2007. c.304p. ISBN 978-0-618-91547-7. $26. F In Roth's ninth installment in the Zuckerman saga, the reclusive author leaves his mountain retreat in the Berkshires […]

* Wright, Stephen. The Amalgamation Polka. Knopf. Feb. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0679-45117-X. $24.95. F Liberty Fish embodies the national dilemma: he was raised by Northern abolitionists, but his mother's family [...]

Falco, Edward. Wolf Point. Unbridled. Oct. 2005. c.240p. ISBN 1-932961-08-9. $23.95. F Tom Walker, a retired 57-year-old, leaves his home in Virginia for a spur-of-the-moment photography trip to the Thousand [...]

Murray, Albert. The Magic Keys. Pantheon. May 2005. c.256p. ISBN 0-375-42353-2. $24. F Murray is best known as a jazz historian and social critic and for his friendship with writer [...]

JOHNSON, CHARLES. Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories. Scribner. Feb. 2005. c.144p. ISBN 0-7432-6453-3. $20. F Most of the pieces in this collection are very short, high-concept parables that […]

HarperCollins. Oct. 2003. c.372p. ISBN 0-06-019649-1. $29.95. F In a brief preface to this collection, Bausch acknowledges his debt to the great story writers who preceded him. His goal, he [...]

Amistad: HarperCollins. Sept. 2003. c.400p. 0-06-055754-0. $24.95. F This ambitious first novel by National Book Award nominee Jones (Lost in the City: Stories) looks at slavery from an unusual angle. [...]

Hoeg, Peter. Farrar. Feb. 1998. c.304p. tr. from Danish by Barbara Haveland. ISBN 0-374-27254-9. $23. F Danish author Hoeg has published four novels in the United States, including the critically [...]

Morse, David. Harcourt. Jul. 1998, c.448p. LC 97-27849. ISBN 0-15-100259-2. $25. F By the year 2043, Earth is in the throes of a full-scale ecological disaster. Global warming has turned [...]

The year is 2020, and the United States has been ravaged by war with China. Parts of the country are in ruins, but the affluent suburbs of the Northeast remain [...]

Poverman, C.E. Ontario Review, dist. by Braziller. May 1997. c.300p. LC 96-35491. ISBN 0-86538-Q87-2. $22.95. F Overworked legal investigator Frank August isn't surprised that he failed his latest bar exam. [...]

Vonnegut, Kurt. Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction. Delacorte. Nov. 2009. c.272p. ISBN 978-0-385-34371-8. $27. F This is the third collection of Vonnegut's early work, following Bagombo Snuff Box […]

Currie Jr., Ron. Everything Matters! Viking. Jul. 2009. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-670-02092-8. $25.95. F Currie's first book, God Is Dead, was a collection of linked short stories in which God returns [...]

* Updike, John. My Father's Tears and Other Stories. Knopf. Jun. 2009. c.304p. ISBN 9780-307-27156-3. $25. F In the title story of this miraculous final collection, the aging narrator admits, [...]