European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews Dolores Claf bom by Stephen King Viking. King scares readers to death. Just when they think he has Given All he has in a Book he comes up with something that can Only be described As Brilliant. Do ores Claiborne is like nothing he has Ever done and i Hope we see More of it. The entire tale is told in the Rich Maine dialect of Dolores paid companion housekeeper of senile Vera Donovan. Vera wheelchair bound Falls Down the Steps. Dolores vehemently denies killing these Nile woman in spite of All her foibles and prob. Lems a but she readily admits to killing her bus band. Dolores explains step by step Why she Felt it n dec Essaiy to push her husband Down a Well Shaft. To is a tightly wrought tale dark Rich and passionate in what can come of an unhappy childhood and the subsequent entanglements of an unhappy relationship it is the voice of one woman Shell and it is a masterpiece. Kathleen Ostrander up the death of Napoleon by Simon Leys Farrar Straus amp Giroux. It enough to make a Bonapartis weep in the death of Napoleon Leys has written a spare fanciful Book that provides an alternate destiny for the great French Leader. Instead of forced sequestration of St. Helena Napoleon exchanges places with a Loyal sergeant who remains on the Island. Napoleon then winds his Way Back to France in this unlikely but elegantly written tale. A. The leaders return to France is intricately planned years in Advance but the unfortunate designer of the plan having passed away leaves Napoleon a bit in the lurch. Having to fend for himself while maintaining secrecy proves arduous for the once great Man. Aft Rall How does a retired Emper or proceed in the Day to Day world Leys recognizing the limits of his farfetched plan takes us Only for a Brief spin through the leaders. Second life. For a clue to the curious he becomes a successful merchant by reviving through Battle like strategy a widows failing Melon business. More interesting is that Napoleoni must divorce himself from his glorious or ignominious past in order to survive. The author explores the change in the Man s circumstances but also the internal Workings of a Man robbed of his identity. Moreover the a very political and Battle skills that once forged his greatness must necessarily remain dormant. Alyson Myers up the Cabin by David Mamet Turtle Bay books. When i finished 77ze Cabin 1 was swept by exhilaration and emptiness a stimulated by the Rich collection of this pulitzer prize winners prose disappointed that when i turned the last Page there was t another to follow. The stories Are episodic tracings through Mamet a life a As a youth watching his sister being beaten by his Stepfather to the Celebration of his film in Cannes and ending with a tour of the buttons he collected and placed on his bulletin Board. His tales Lake place in Chicago Vermont Canada new York Scotland and France. They Are simple and honest and real and they reach out and grab the Reader by the hand As if to say Quot hey come along a inviting the Reader to engage in his or her own memory voyage. The second impulse is to run out and read the rest of his works from the pulitzer winning play Glen Garty Glen Boss to american Buffalo Speed the plow and Oleanna which opened off Broadway in late october. A a Henry David Rosso up my wicked wicked Weye by Sandra Cisneros Turtle Bay books. Cisneros is one of the brightest and surest a Young lights in a Galaxy of Many sometime and would be stars. Her two previous mainstream books the novel the House on Mango Street and the Story collection woman hollering Creek and other Sto Ries established that with firmness. Now we find that even before the fiction there was a Small but significant body of poetry published by those Small Independent presses like third rest Sellers l woman press or Mango press that nourish Young writers until the mainstream deigns to take notice. Now they be taken notice of Cisneros and the wider audience without Access to such publications As the Chicano chapbook series is enriched by it. Teresa Eliot up appetisers in s japanese mood by Yukiko and Robert Haydock Koda Nasha International. Japan Csc style food is a Delight for the palate As Well As for the eyes but the techniques required to make authentic dishes can be complicated. Slicing in the wrong direction can make the difference Between a Beautiful dish of Washimi and an Ordinary plate of raw fish. Authors Yukiko and Robert Haydock use a series of line drawings to illustrate each individual step and a color photograph to demonstrate How a finished product should look. The method works. Each recipe includes a Brief explanatory preface with advice about ingredients or recipe variations. A. Douglas Levy up the cure by Frank to Wydra Pell. The  does no to exactly have a Good reputation these Days. Doctors buy test labs then order tests from those same facilities so they profit from illness twice. Hospitals have increased their rates to cover their expenses with almost no attempt to operate More of. Fic gently so that health care Price inflation has been steady even while recession kept other prices Flat. Drug companies have been caught using Legal loopholes to charge vast sums for cheaply produced medicines. One firm later mortally wounded by lawsuits marketed an id that transmitted infections into the uterus. With such a Crafty and venal Industry As this it would be difficult to imagine a novel whose plot makes the bad Guys of the pharmaceutical Industry excessively evil. Wydra has done it however by envisioning an International Cabal of drug company Bosses who protect their profits by agreeing not to compete with each other on certain drugs. Further the cure postulates that these boys Are capable of suppressing an aids vaccine on the grounds that if they wait a few More years there will be a lot More people who need it. Still even such an outrageous premise As that could be the basis of a Good Book if other aspects of the Story were Well judged. We might even Praise the finished product to teach the pharmaceutical Industry a lesson. Instead Wydra resorts to the cliches of other poo pies novels the cub reporter who will do anything for her big break Tom hardened detective who likes treading on the toes of big men. 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