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- <title>
- Sep. 10, 1990: Hot Books For The Fall
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 10, 1990 Playing Cat And Mouse
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BOOKS, Page 86
- HOT BOOKS FOR THE FALL
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- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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...
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p> 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?
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>By R.Z. Sheppard.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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