European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse 1if reviews insomnia by Stephen King Viking. King s latest finds the master of modern horror in top form. It s his most satisfying Book in years a touching and compelling Story with some not so Subtle political overtones. Ralph Roberts is a 70-year-old Retiree living in Derry Maine. After his wife Dies of a brain tumor Roberts begins suffering from a strange and terrify ing form of insomnia each Day he wakes up a Little earlier than the Day before. Soon he is sleeping less than an hour a night. The politics play second fiddle to the supernatural goings on but King includes commentary on Abor Tion that May not please some fans. Anti abortionists with a few exceptions come off As lunatics. The pro Choice Side gets roasted for being More concerned with causes than with lives but it s pretty Clear where King s sympathies lie. Darin Powell Birmingham Post Herald closing time by Joseph Heller Simon & schuster v in 1962i Joseph Heller took War to the surreal Lim its of its twisted death obsessed logic catch-22s hero the Bombardier Yossarian wanted Only to get Back Home Back to where he would be Safe he wanted the War to end he wanted out. After surviving his own near fatal illness and now past 70, Joseph Heller does t find Home so Safe any More and he can t let the War end it s the Only thing that makes sense. The War in t absurd any More it s the world that has gone mad. In los no time Yossarian s contemporary Jour Ney through Normal life gets the full Heller comic treatment which has by now worn thin. But what re deems this novel is Heller s retelling of catch-22 and for Good measure that other darkly comic world War ii classic Kurt Vonnegut s slaughterhouse five. This time Heller tells the War straight. When he in t trying to be funny he renders it with piteous realistic at times stunning Power. William Broyles los Angeles times last train to Memphis the Rise off Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick Little Brown. Whether you re a devotee faithfully making that Graceland pilgrimage twice a year or the sort who Only mentions Elvis in the context of a Jelly doughnut joke last train to Memphis will forever change the Way you think and feel about Elvis. Meticulously researched and fleshed out by hundreds of interviews Guralnick s 560-Page biography will stand As the ultimate document of Elvis life from birth until he entered the army in 1958. Gural Nick is working on the second volume dealing with his life from the army on. For collectors of Elvis trivia the Book is a trea sure. There s the Coyer charge for his Early gigs at the Eagle s nest $1.20 a transcription of a 1955. Radio interview with Mae Axton who would later write Heartbreak hotel and a Girlfriend s reminiscence that Elvis hated Ketchup on his Fries. Larry Nager commercial Appeal Good Rocklyn tonight Twenty years on the Road and on the town with Elvis by Joe Elena o Umano Simon & schuster. This Book begins As last train to Memphis ends with Elvis in the army where Esposito a fellow draftee met him in Germany. Esposito would go on to become the King s Road manager a Job that entailed everything from keep. Ing his various girlfriends away from to lighting his cigars to just hanging out with the rest of his an insider Esposito has written a average Elvis Book. He was there when Elvis met and jammed with the beatles when Elvis taped his 1968 to special and when he returned to Memphis for his legendary 1969 recording sessions at Ameri can studios. Larry Nager Brothers and Sisters by babe Moore Camp Bell Putnam. This Book begins in the aftermath of the los an Geles riots that followed the acquittal of White policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. The novel focuses on Esther Jackson a Young Black woman whose promising career at a Bank is compromised by Stephen King is Back with insomnia. Sexual harassment and situations that Challenge her own views of race and gender As she tries to build a Friendship with a White female colleague. The novel is definitely set in the now Campbell said in a recent interview. The los Angeles riots were certainly a catalyst for the writing. They Are referred to As something that is haunting the City Fredric Koeppel commercial Appeal there was a Little girl by de Mcbain warn or books. A. This is no. 11 in Mcbain s Matthew Hope series. Mcbain does t flinch from violence cruelty or otherwise repugnant elements although there was a Little girl is less violent than some of the other books in this series. Mcbain s biggest accomplishment is that at the end we be really lived with these characters in their weird world and the Mem Ory lingers Long after we be turned the final Page. Bob Croan Pittsburgh Post Gazette cruising the Caribbean . Influence and intervention in the twentieth Century by Ronald common courage press. Prisoners of colonialism the struggle for Justice in puerto Rico by Ronald Fernan Dez common courage press. Both books Are full of shocking tales of racism cultural insensitivity and imperialism during the Long period that the United states considered the carib bean an american Lake and its people children to be patronized and controlled. But Fernandez stresses the United states has also provided an example to latin americans in its own revolution and Constitution. His goal in cruising the Caribbean he writes is partly to answer the question Why do decent people sometimes pursue cruel political economic and military strategies unfortunately neither Book answers the question. Cruising the Caribbean has a wealth of detail on the politics of the United states and Caribbean nations but lacks a Structure that would get its Point across. For a Public that is As Fernandez Points out we caul. By ignorant of latin american affairs the jump s from country to country and fragmentary references to events Are confusing. These faults become magnified in prisoners of colonialism by the author s polemical style. The Book deals with puerto rican political prisoners from the time of the . Occupation of the Island until today. It includes a lengthy Section on the trials in the 1983 Wells Fargo robbery carried out by los Mac heteros who believe in violence and expropriations to achieve Independence. Their violence Fernandez writes is analogous to the violence of the american revolution the fact is the huge majority of puerto Picans voted last year to retain the Island s links to the United states either As a Commonwealth or As a state. Independence seems to be on the Back Burner there. 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