European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews a son of the circus by John Irving random House. \ no there Aren t any bears or wrestlers in living s eighth novel but even without those signature Marks of his Early work his fans will feel at Home Here. His country less characters Don to though. This Book has orphans and doctors and writers a whole circus full of animals irony and sexual ambiguity galore. It has humor. It has violence. It has living s usual crowded dickensian universe and if not world War ii itself the moral equivalent. This is a three ringer of a novel Lions chimps elephants vultures acrobats dwarfs transsexuals eunuch transvestites slapstick smoke and sequins miracles real and bogus Art intertwining with life aids drug dealing and mutilation heartache Anco heroism enough Faith for a lame boy to try sky walking upside Down across a tent roof 80 feet above ground. It s no wonder Irving chose to write about circuses because they turn put to be the perfect metaphor for his books under the big top More always is More. Michael Harris los Angeles times Brando songs my Mother taught me by Marlon Brando random House. Brando has bitterly rejected his own legend. To combat myth he has chosen silence. An intensely private Man he has granted Only a handful of inter views in the last 30 years. But in an irony that i familiar in the age of spectacle his silence has Only heightened the Aura that so nauseated him. Whatever his faults and they Are Many Brando was never Bland. But this Book co authored by Rob Ert Lindsey while certainly several notches above the Standard show Biz Tell All never catches fire. We Are Given All the information to construct a life but not the sense of life itself. Those coloured lights never really get going. Gar Kamiya san Francisco examiner the Catcher was a spy the mysterious life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff Panthe on ,. / /.  ,.first-time author Dawidoff seems to cover old ground in relating How a scholarly boy from Newark n.j., with degrees from Princeton and Columbia combined a mediocre baseball career with a comedy of errors tenure As a spy during world War ii to fabricate a life built on lies. Most of Berg s reputation As scholar and spy was phony Dawidoff discovered including his tej owl Edge of foreign languages. A Bob Hoover Pittsburgh Post a Tui North of Montana by april Smith Knopf. Smith s ambitious first novel the Story of a female Fri agent trying to crack a High profile drug Case has absolutely nothing to do with Montana or with any other High and lonesome state in the Amer ican Northwest. The title refers instead to los Angeles Montana venue a Road that divides the City s wealthiest suburbs from the rest of the Urban sprawl. And the title Clicks because North of Montana is something More than a color by numbers thriller it s a notably liter ate crime novel about All manner of social dividing lines race gender age class in the rude Ste of . S human melting pot. Dwight Garner new Day Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Camp Bell Putnam faster than a speeding metro rail Able to leap insurmountable racial tensions in a single bound fighting for truth Justice and political correctness its sup Crook would that it were. Actually it s Campbell s new novel about a barely fictionalized los Angeles set in the aftermath of the 1992 civil unrest. It aspires to dizzying Heights trying in a 476-Page fell swoop to Pluck an array of social and ethnic types out of los Angeles melting actually boiling pot and satisfactorily resolve the burning question of whether we can All get along. But Campbell is simply not up to the literary task she sets for herself Here. This second novel written in a far Pupier style than her first your blues Ain t like mine quickly collapses under the weight of its lofty intentions and winds up insulting the very peo Best Sellers pie it Means to humanize White corporate executives Black corporate executives Middle class peo ple of both races latinos and most unfortunately the maligned populace of South Central los an Geles. In Moore s heavy hands they Are All eminently forgettable mouthpieces for a variety of sociological ills that crowd out any possibility for engaging believable characters. Erin Aubry los Angeles times of Long memory Mississippi and the murder of Medgar Evers by Adam Nossiter Addison Wesley. In his first Book Nossiter has used the reopening of the Evers Case As a window to the past and Means of exploring Mississippi s remarkable trans formation from police state to member of these United states. Evers Field Secretary of the a act in Jackson miss., was slain by an Assassin s Bullet one summer night in 1963 As he stepped from his car. He died blood draining from his Chest in View of his wife and  apologizes for his Lack of Southern Heri Tage. In 1963 and perhaps even to a degree today he would be described by some As an outsider yet an other Northern correspondent come to pass judgment on  instead of a Handicap Nossiter s perspective has added a dimension to this work that other authors of his generation who hailed from the South might miss. In his first chapter he describes inter views with College freshmen in Jackson Blacks who had Learned of the Jim Crow Era through their parents Whites who had a vague knowledge of the Gen eral unfairness of it All but knew Little of the details. Reed Branson Memphis commercial Appeal one True thing by Anna Quindlen random House. Quindlen s second novel an account of family upheaval is diligently mapped and As thoroughly considered As the new York times columns that have won her Praise and prizes. The Appeal of one True thing lies in its Intelli gence its nowadays unconventional moral rigor and an unforgettable portrayal of death by cancer. What is lacking Are literary style subtlety and a certain incandescence. Lynne Schwartz new York times hitting the press you can add a Book on Nik on Nicole Simpson to the growing deluge of Reading material on the Infa Mous Case. Nicole Brown Simpson the private diary of a life interrupted is on the Way from Dove says variety s army archerd wifi a first printing of 250,000. The author is Faye Resnick described As a socialite Friend of Nicole s. 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