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...although the set design for the Warbucks mansion is a bit much--The Nike of Samothrace looms in one corner, while Picassos, Mattises, Rembrants and the Mona Lisa also make appearances--it does produce a few chuckles from older members of the audience. Rooster Hannigan, played by Laurent Giroux, and his accomplice Lily St. Regent ("like the hotel, ya' know?"), played by Karen Byers-Blackwell, made a suitably contrasting couple as they scheme their way through the remainder of the show. Giroux demonstrates a wonderfully repulsive amount of sleaziness as well as a convincing rooster call, and Byers-Blackwell plays...
...lists them, it becomes clear why readers have had to wait 11 years for A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 742 pages; $28.95) and how demanding the self-imposed Wolfe regimen of putting that book together actually was. "First, I tried to take the easy way out by setting most of the new novel in Manhattan, the same locale I'd used in Bonfire. I didn't realize until 1995 that this approach wasn't working and that I was repeating myself. Second, I always recommend to people who ask me for helpful hints on writing that they start...
...project might have occupied part of a Saturday afternoon. Instead, as the author relates in the preamble to his spectacularly orogenous and deeply benthic volume Annals of the Former World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 696 pages; $35), it required most of the next 20 years. It morphed from one road cut to a nation of them across the continental trail of Interstate 80, and from one bemused geologist to dozens. Readers had stamina then, and over the years the New Yorker printed McPhee's emerging rock opera as a succession of four-parters: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from...
Mario Vargas Llosa the politician ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
...Crace's Quarantine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 243 pages; $23) novelizes the Temptations of Christ, adding a plot bubbling with sin and a supporting cast of odd pilgrims. Crace, a British journalist turned novelist (The Gift of Stones, Continent), is not the first writer to take fictional liberties with Scripture. He won't be the last. But his new effort proves to be one of the more successful reimaginings. Readers and critics in Britain thought so: when Quarantine was published there last year, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award...