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...enamored with "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus; September 4), giving it a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade. "FORECAST: The allure of 'The Virgin Suicides,' in book and movie form, has created a ready-made audience for Eugenides' long-awaited second novel. 'Middlesex' more than delivers, and its publication will be a genuine publishing event, including a 10-city author tour. A novel starring a hermaphrodite on bestseller lists? Stranger things have happened...
...novel stood out at BEA this year like "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen did last year. But Farrar, Straus, Franzen's publisher, is hoping that it has another winner in "Middlesex" (September), a novel by "Virgin Suicides" author Jeffrey Eugenides. Will lightening strike twice...
...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
...Trujillo transposed in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $25) is heartless and uncannily shrewd, a man whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads...
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux...