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Editor's Choice FICTION AGENTS OF INNOCENCE, David Ignatius -- THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, Tom Wolfe -- LEAVING HOME, Garrison Keillor -- THE RADIANT WAY, Margaret Drabble -- ROCK SPRINGS, Richard Ford -- A SOUTHERN FAMILY, Gail Godwin NONFICTION A LIFE IN PEACE AND WAR, Brian Urquhart -- THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Katharine Hepburn -- MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tip O'Neill with William Novak -- THE MASK OF COMMAND, John Keegan -- MIAMI, Joan Didion -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin
...CHILD IN TIME, Ian McEwan -- FIRST LIGHT, Charles Baxter -- LEAVING HOME, Garrison Keillor -- OUTLAWS, George V. Higgins -- A SOUTHERN FAMILY, Gail Godwin...
...elements seem to have been assembled for a spirited feminist parable about the oppressive choices that society forces on women. Indeed, that story can be found within A Southern Family, but so can many others. In her seventh novel, Gail Godwin again displays the narrative verve and generosity that won critical praise for her early works and then popular, best-selling acclaim for A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and The Finishing School (1985). Her meticulously controlled fiction creates the illusion of life unpredictably unfolding and of characters trying to make moral sense out of experiences that overwhelm thought...
...Gail Godwin' s enthralling A Southern Family portrays a tragic loss of ideals and energies. -- The astonishing life of Beryl Markham...
Frankenstein was a modern horror story; Russell means Gothic to be the last horror show. Byron is Count Dracula, feeding on his guests' dreams and demons. Shelley is every weak hero, Polidori every mad doctor, Clairmont every wench whose lust turns her into a succubus. And Godwin, racked by visions of her stillborn child, becomes the cursed mothers of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. From the labor of her nightmares, she gives birth to literature's most enduring monster...