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- BOOKS, Page 86HOT BOOKS FOR THE FALL
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- With a boom-or-bust mentality gripping the book industry,
- publishers are nervously fielding their entries for the fall's
- best-seller sweepstakes. Some name-brand authors can't miss.
- Others, even those with high critical marks, will find their
- efforts in remainder bins. Art, like life, isn't fair. Here is
- a selection of sure things and possible surprises for the
- coming season.
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- BEST SELLERS: Lady Boss by Jackie Collins -- The latest
- Hollywood antics of a daughter to the Mob. The First Man in
- Rome by Colleen McCullough -- 110 B.C. and all that. Four Past
- Midnight by Stephen King -- Novellas from the horror master.
- Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon -- Another
- plot-till-you-plotz spy novel. Surrender the Pink by Carrie
- Fisher -- Star Wars, WordStar, it all comes easy to this
- actress-author. The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel -- Another
- big woolly mammoth from the queen of ice-age romance.
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- BEST THRILLS: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton -- Things
- go awry when scientists populate a theme park with
- bioengineered dinosaurs. The Power by James Mills -- From the
- author of The Panic in Needle Park. Spy Sinker by Len Deighton
- -- A plot to bring down East Germany: good idea, but . . .
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- BELLE FICTION: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas
- Llosa -- Would you believe an erotic family novel? The General
- in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of
- Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of
- a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry --
- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal
- Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets
- Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff --
- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire
- by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the
- factual bombing of Move headquarters by Philadelphia police in
- 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer
- as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike --
- Harry Angstrom hops offstage, perhaps to meet his maker. The
- Further Inquiry by Ken Kesey -- The head Prankster rerolls the
- legendary cross-country bus trip. Tender by Mark Childress --
- For the character Leroy Kirby, read Elvis Presley. Orrie's
- Story by Thomas Berger -- The author of Little Big Man retells
- the Greek Oresteia as a small-town tragedy.
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- LEADING LIVES: Casey by Joseph E. Persico -- The secrets of
- businessman-spook William. The Colonel by Godfrey Hodgson --
- Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail
- Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald
- Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory:
- William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of
- TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson
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- Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling
- Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes -- A
- distinguished writer's autobiography about his early life as
- an orphan.
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- BEST REPORTAGE: In a Child's Name by Peter Maas -- A steamy
- case of wife murder and child custody pitting two American
- worlds. Pledging Allegiance by Sidney Blumenthal -- The 1988
- campaign and the cold war that we don't have to kick around
- anymore. See How They Run by Paul Taylor -- From the reporter
- who asked Gary Hart, "Have you ever committed adultery?" Under
- God by Garry Wills -- Why church and state can't be clearly
- separated. The Polk Conspiracy by Kati Marton -- Who killed CBS
- correspondent George Polk?
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- BEST BUCKLEYS: Gratitude by William F. Buckley Jr. -- An
- argument for universal, nonmilitary national service. Tucker's
- Last Stand by William F. Buckley Jr. -- Meantime, more secret
- service by spy-hero Blackford Oakes. Wet Work by Christopher
- Buckley -- High jinks on the trail of the drug lords. Statute
- of Limitations by John Buckley -- The White House, pot smoking
- and blackmail. Panama by Kevin (no relation) Buckley --
- Noriega, the CIA and the invasion that couldn't shoot straight.
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- By R.Z. Sheppard.
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