European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Leaving Home a Memoir by Art Buchwald Putnam. For More than 30 years humorist Art Buchwald has been deflating Washington sized egos pricking the balloon of the presidency the Power brokers and the politicos. Whether he s Bush whacking or taking aim at the Quayle or the Clinton the syndicated Washington columnist and author of nearly 30 books has kept readers amused with the lighter and sillier Side of Buchwald has tackled a serious subject his own youth. This Book is a poignant remembrance of things past a coming to terms with a childhood that was anything but funny. Shortly after Buchwald s birth in 1925, his Mother who was suffering from severe chronic depression was committed to a private Sanitorium. She never re covered and eventually she was placed in a state Hospital in new York where she remained for 35 years the rest of her life. Buchwald also writes about two serious depressions he has suffered in his own life one As recently As 1987. Buchwald now says he is very up beat and jokes that depression speeds up All the psychiatry by leaving Home takes a decided upbeat turn when 17-year-old Buchwald runs away to sign up with the marines. He served three years in the Pacific during world War ii and honed his sense of humor. The Marine corps Buchwald says was the Best Foster Home he Ever had. I was a lost soul and the marines straightened me up just at the right time. They made me Shine my shoes they made me proud of myself and they made me feel 19 feet Jocelyn Mcclurg the Hartford courant Miami it s murder by Edna Buchanan hype Rio none of the deep pleasures readers get from Good crime fiction is that instant of Epiphany when the Murk clears and the truth stands out boldly. Elu Sive in life such moments Are available in the Best mysteries for a few Bucks a bargain. The moment of truth in Buchanan s Funky deliciously intense Miami it s murder is especially Fine. For up to a Point this second in Buchanan s Britt Montero series seems to be merely tropical picaresque a hard working newspaper woman s colourful and perceptive ramble through a few Days on the Dade county police beat. Then it starts to Dawn on Montero and on the Reader that certain murder victims have something in common businessman Dieter Steiner probably murdered two wives but escaped prosecution through Legal loopholes Emerson Creech dead of sexual asphyxia if you Don t know Don t ask was a suspect in the unsolved murder of his Niece Eric Fielding running hard and fast for governor of Flor Ida has t been killed yet but he May have murdered and mutilated a Young girl when he was 17. Buchanan the pulitzer prize winning former crime reporter for the Miami Herald seems incapable of a single false note in her depictions of the strains and constant rude surprises of both police and newspaper life. And Montero is a charmer sexy morally serious witty. Buchanan gives some of her most mordant lines to an old cop who describes one reprobate whose body has been found in a freshly poured Concrete column As a pillar of the Community i Buchanan has been writing crime fiction for Only a few years but she s already one of the form s nation Al treasures. Head lock by Jerome Doolittle pocket books. Doolittle is another terrific stylist whose head lock the fifth in the Tom Bethany series will please or profoundly displease readers depending on their political persuasions. A former speech writer for Jimmy Carter Doolittle has come up with a literary stick in the Eye to the Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives High atop the Best seller lists. These Ries could be subtitled the liberals revenge. In head lock former Harvard wrestler Bethany goes to the mat with a right Wing anti abortion organizer who s aiming for a Virginia Senate seat. The Rev. Howard Orrin uses his holy electronic Church to bring in big Bucks from people Bethany Calls the Best Sellers Art Buchwald remembers his serious Side. Theologically when Bethany accompanies his married Lover in Washington to a suburban abortion clinic he Hap pens into a confrontation with Orrin s followers a teen age girl visiting the clinic is so traumatized by the mob and by the publicity they bring Down on her that she commits suicide. Outraged Bethany vows to bring Orrin Down and of How he does. Pro Choice readers will follow gleefully As Bethany s pal Semi retired prostitute Wanda Vollmer in traps yes alas Orrin in a videotaped so scene that is As disgustingly believable As it is hilarious head lock contains some of the most scathing satire of Uhr conservatives since Richard Condon s glory Days. Conservative republicans with High blood pressure should steer Clear. Voices in the dark by Andrew Coburn Dut ton. There s also a Harvard Man in Coburn s Bone Chil Ling voices in the dark. But this Man of Cambridge does t save teen age children he kills them. Dudley he has either forgotten his last name or won t Tell shows up broke dishevelled and smelly in Bennington mass., a tightly clipped Boston suburb. When he s taken in for vagrancy by police chief James Morgan Dudley mentions in passing i kill Morgan thinks the Man is deluded but there s something about the cryptic teasing of this genial bum that Morgan can t dismiss. Voices in the dark is like a bizarre offspring of John Updike and Patricia Highsmith and it is riveting. It is not just about child murder that most heart wrenching of crimes. It is about parents who arrange to have their children killed. That May sound too extreme to be believed. But Coburn is masterful at showing How Normal conflicts of parenthood can in a pathological mind turn murderous. Bad love by Jonathan Kellerman Bantam. This is a psychological thriller too but it s pretty Limp and Hokey next to Coburn s work. Alex Delaware Kellerman s Sleuth shrink receives an audiocassette in the mail with someone screaming in pain and the words bad love repeated Over and Over. Delaware recalls a conference he once attended at which child psychiatrist Andre de Bosch spoke of Good love bad love his term for mothering gone bad the psychic damage inflicted according to the expert when a trusted figure betrays the psychologists at that Long ago conference have been getting knocked off Delaware learns and he s afraid that he s on some maniac s hit list too. The outcome of bad love is probably psychologically sound but it s All overheated and formulaic. And when the big Surprise comes most readers will just say of Richard Lipez new Day new York times fiction 1 disclosure by Michael Crichlon last week 1 week on list 4 2 the Bridges of Madison county by Robert James Wallet last week. 2,weeks on list 79 3 Stow Wita in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller last week 3. Weeks enlist 15 4 fatal Curt by Robin Cook last week 4 weeks on list 3 5 Uki water for chocolate by Laura Esquival last week 7, weeks on list. 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