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...KING OF THE FIELDS by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar Straus Giroux; $18.95). In his first novel in five years, the Nobel laureate, 84, portrays a remote tribe in a faraway past enduring the shocks of progress and civilization...
...KING OF THE FIELDS by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar Straus Giroux; $18.95). In his first novel in five years, the Nobel laureate, 84, portrays a remote tribe in a faraway past enduring the shocks of progress and civilization...
...Farrar Straus & Giroux 244 pages...
AIDS and Its Metaphors, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in January, examines the way the epidemic is thought about and discussed. She conceived it as a sequel to Illness As Metaphor, the 1978 work that emerged from her experience with breast cancer, a mastectomy and years of chemotherapy. The earlier book, by tracing myths that had attached themselves to tuberculosis and cancer, brilliantly discredited notions -- like that of the pent-up, "cancer-prone" personality -- that add senseless guilt and shame to the burdens patients already carry. "But it's much more common now for people to be candid about...
...Farrar Straus & Giroux; 195 pages...