European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Even Limbaugh likes Berendt s Midnight hit by done Briant Atlanta journal Constitution o one is More surprised than author John Berendt by the Success of Midnight in the Garden of Good and evil ran Dom House. Eight months after publication the new York writer s True crime Story of the shooting of a male Hustler by wealthy Gay Savannah Antiques dealer Jim Williams is no. 5 on the new York times Best seller list. Foreign rights have been sold to the United kingdom Germany Japan and Brazil. Most surprisingly conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh has Given his Blessing to the Book says Berendt. You would t think a Book about a Gay murder a Black drag Queen named Chablis and a crazy of one sort or another would Appeal to Rush Limbaugh Berendt says but he mentioned How much he liked it three times in one week. I guess it s because the narrator does t take  joining the club the military Book club has chosen Atlanta writer Avrum Fine s Book code name Copperhead As a featured selection. Published by Simon & schuster the biography of sgt maj Joe Garner is an action filled account of his 27 years in the special forces. Joe was the first Man Toffee fall from an aircraft with a nuclear device strapped to his Back Fine says. It was a secret demonstration at fort Bragg for High ranking  before getting into the free Lance writing business Fine made to commercials and Low budget films such As Tim Conway s a in do a Hobo. Fine s next Book is the Parade we never had the Story of two contingents of army Green berets who in 1971, retraced the route of explorers Lewis and Clark. As they travelled the 2,800-Miie route they rediscovered America and America rediscovered the Vietnam veterans Fine says. These Small towns treated them All like heroes. It was  movie Deal Mutiny on the Amistead Oxford University pres University of Alabama historian Howard Jones account of an 1839 slave revolt on Spanish ship has been optioned for filming by French director Jean Jacques Aynaud the love according to publishers  Book covers the revolt and the resulting trial in new England where the slaves were defended by John Quincy Adams and eventually freed. More Kennedy it would seem there is Noth ing left to Tell about the Kennedy clan but Laurence bust Sellers learner found plenty of fresh material for his Best seller the Kennedy women Villard. I realized that even if a Book was called the Kennedy it was about the men says learner who decided to focus on the women. Even a woman called Jackie was More about Jack s philandering than about  learner who talked to dozens of Kennedy family members Learned that Joan Kennedy and her father tried in vain to Call off the wedding with Ted Jean Kennedy Smith now ambassador to Ireland had an affair with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in the 60s and Jackie came close to divorcing Jack. America s Romance with the Kennedy is finished learner says but what this Book does is let you see them  new editions hardback fiction shelter by Jayne Anne Phil lips Houghton Mifflin Seymour Lawrence. A group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage in a West Virginia girls Camp in 1963. Hardcover non Letlon what i have written a novel of erotic obsession by John Scott Norton. In the style of damage an australian married Man goes to Paris and plunges into a love affair. Paperback fictions Littlejohn by Howard Owen Vintage. A haunting novel about an 82-year old North Carolina Farmer who sets out one Day to end his life. Cox news service on the Job ". Nine lives from stripper to school teacher my year Long Odyssey in the workplace by Lynn Snowden Norton. Chutzpah moxie spunk. It would be difficult to discuss Snowden and her highly engaging Book with out invoking those three words. Given the rigorous physical and emotional de mands of the reporting that she did for this work of participatory journalism it might be More appropriate to declaim thusly chutzpah moxie spunk a free Lance Magazine writer who got herself hired for nine different jobs in the course of a year from counselling rape victims in Texas to making chocolate dinosaurs in a factory in Connecticut from writing copy for a new York City advertising Agency to working As a stripper on Bourbon Street in new Orleans Snowden has an ability to throw herself into harrowing situations that is marked by equal parts determination and brio. Snowden never fails to hold our interest or to pro vide a Clear understanding of the tasks Andi Rrita tons of each career. The most diverting chapter of the Book is her stint As a pyrotechnic Ian for the heavy Metal band skid Row whose music she de scribes As the aural equivalent of a train  such a career it seems brings out the pc Stiness in Snowden. When she finds skid Row s tour accountant Reading her notebook one Day she bashes him with her Duffel bag. When a male Groupie intimates that he will do almost anything in Exchange  of the band member s guitar picks Snowden tells him to lick the sludge coated sole of her sneaker he does and lustily. After i had read this second act of brazenness a classic reversal of the humiliation that male roadies put female fans through Sud Denly the idea of George Plimpton playing for the Lions or of Gloria Steinem working As a Playboy Bunny seemed almost quaint. Henry Alford new Day new York times list hardback fiction 1 debt of Honor by Tom Clancy last week 1 weeks on list 4 2 the body finn by Patricia com will last week 7 weeks on list 2 3 Thi Celeste prophecy by James Redfield last week 2 weeks on list 30 4 the ont by Danielle steel last week 3 weeks on list 9. 5 nothing lists form by Sidney Sheldon first week on list i politically Correct bedtime stories by James finn Garner last week 4. Weeks on list 14 7 a son of the circus by John Irving last week 8 weeks on list 4 i the Bridges of med ton county by Robert James Waller last week 6weeks on list 111 i the chamber by John it Sham last week 5 weeks on list 16 10 Disney s die Jon eng adapted by Don Ferguson last week 10 weeks enlist 8. 11 until Yon by Judith Mcnaught last week 9 weeks on list 6 12 mutant message Down under by Mario Morgan last week 11 weeks on 13 the Agenw by Caleb gift last week 14 weeks on list 2 14 Helf asleep in Frog pyjamas by Tom bobbins last week 16 weeks Ohst 2 -.-. ,. /. 15 Brothers ind Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell first week on list. A. Hong Chon. 1 coup mood by Paul Reiser last week 2 weeks on list 32 embraced by be ugh by Betty j. Eadle with Curtis Taylor last week 1weeks on list 72 i Benin Bush a Memoir by Barbara Bush last week 12 weeks on list 2 4 the Bool of Virtues by William j. Bennett last week 4 weeks on list 40 8 Man Lam i the Garden of Good and evil by John Berendt last week 6weeks on list 29 i Motherless ought in by Hope Edelman last week 5 weeks on list 9 7 the Kennedy women by Laurence learner last week 3 weeks on list 6 i Brando songs my Mother tight me by Marlon Brando with Robert Lundsey first week on list i october 1964 by David Halberstam last week 7 weeks on list 6 i 0 the tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas last week 8 weeks on St 7  y ii the Agenda by Bob Woodward last week 9 weeks on list 14 12 Trot North by Jill Ker Covay last week 1 1 weeks on list 2 13 baseball an illustrated history by Geoffrey c. Ward and Ken Burns  14 the Catcher was spy by Nicholas Dawidoff last week 10 weeks on list 15 belter thin Sei by Hunter s. Thompson first week on list miscellaneous 1 men Are from Mars women Are from Venus by John Gray last week 1 weeks on list 70 2 i the Kitchen with Hosle by Rosle Daley last week 2 weeks on list 22 3 magic Eye r by . Thing enterprises last week 3 weeks on list 22 4 magic Eye by . Thing enterprises last week not listed weeks on list34j,-, r. Paperback 1 disclosure by Michael Crichton weeks on list 2 2 Peart in the Mist by . Andrews first week on list 3 without remorse by torn Clancy weeks on list 13 4 Forrest dump by Winston Groom weeks on list 1 0 v b the shipping news by e. Amle Proulx weeks on list 15 6 hug Myiras and dress capes by Stephen King weeks on list 6 7 gone but not forgotten by Philip Margolin weeks on list 5 8 like Witer Lor chocolate by Laura Esquivel weeks on list 6 9 Supla s sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg weeks on list 4 10 stir were champions of the Force by Kevin j. Anderson Lisl week on list. 11 Clew end present danger by Tom Clancy weeks on list 24 12 the door to december by Dean Koontz list week on list 13 bom hike by Nora Roberts first week on list 14 a Cese of need by Michael Crichlon writing As Jeffrey Hudson weeks enlist 14 15 the client by John Grisham. Weeks on list 32. Non Letlon 1 embraced by the Light by Betty j. Eadie with Curtis Taylor first week on list.   2 private parts by Howard Stern weeks on list 2 3 care of the soul by Thomas Moote weeks on list 37 4 a history of god by Karen Armstrong weeks on list 4 5 the Road less travelled by  Peck weeks on list 568 6 you belong to me by Ann Rule weeks on list 4 7 where Angels walk by Joan Wester Anderson weeks on list 37 81 know Why the caged Bird sings by Maya Angelou weeks on list 84 9 Mami makes up her mind by Bailey while weeks on list 21 10 girl interrupted by Susanna Kaysen weeks on list 20 11 listening to prozac by Peter  weeks on list 19 12 Reenal Neering the corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy weeks on list 18. 13 the Tao Crl Pooh by Benjamin Hod weeks on list 47 1 4 a Book of Angels by Sophy Burnham weeks on list 10 15 the silent passage by Gail Sheehy weeks on list 68 16 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 154 miscellaneous 1 Gump Limi the wit end Wisdom of Forrest Gump by Winston Groom weeks on list 5 2 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey wee son list 184 3 what to expect when you re expecting by a Lene Eisenberg. Heidi l Murkot and Sandee e. Hathaway weeks on list 46 4 Chicken soup for the soul by Jack Canfield and Maik Victor Hansen weeks on list 2. September 25, 1994 sunday Page 21