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Junior Albert Kim led the Crimson with 24 kills from the outside, while junior Per Dutton provided a strong middle attack, accumulating 18 kills on 36 attempts...
...Dutton; 241 pages...
There is a subtler, graver flaw, one that readers may not recognize unless they pick up another current book about Von Stein's case, Jerry Bledsoe's Blood Games (Dutton; 451 pages; $22.95). In telling Bonnie Von Stein's story, McGinniss adopts, consciously or not, her view that her son was mostly a pawn manipulated by dangerous friends. McGinniss stresses the young man's weakness of character and instability; he quotes defense and prosecution attorneys describing the youth as a "wimp," and attempts to establish his two co- conspirators as evil geniuses. Even the photograph McGinniss uses shows Von Stein...
...China Boy ($19.95) is this season's major fiction offering from Dutton, which paid the novice writer an advance of nearly $100,000 and ordered a first printing of 75,000 copies. Houghton Mifflin, which had ordered 11,000 copies of Gish Jen's Typical American ($19.95), increased the run by 5,000 as prepublication excitement grew for this engaging tale of one immigrant family's pursuit of the American Dream. Two houses fought to publish Pangs of Love (Knopf; $19), Louie's sharp and quirky collection of short stories...
...Tony Horwitz; Dutton...