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...Olen Butler comes into this long, claustrophobic novel of erotic obsession with a powerful charge of literary momentum, including a Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero's fleshy predicament...
Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; 296 pages) would work superbly as a play, and if you typed it up in scenes and acts instead of chapters, that's what it would be. Scene 1 sets matters moving briskly, though without corpses or car chases: two cops who hate each other's guts are sitting in a Chevy Blazer, doing some kind of surveillance near Boston. And talking. Always talking, in Higgins' novels; mean, edged, sly talk that goes on endlessly and, it seems, aimlessly until, to the astonishment of talkers and readers, it has coiled around...
...unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...
Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; 296 pages; $22.50) would work superbly as a play, and if you typed it up in scenes and acts instead of chapters, that's what it would be. Scene 1 sets matters moving briskly, though without corpses or car chases: two cops who hate each other's guts are sitting in a Chevy Blazer, doing some kind of surveillance near Boston. And talking. Always talking, in Higgins' novels; mean, edged, sly talk that goes on endlessly and, it seems, aimlessly until, to the astonishment of talkers and readers, it has coiled...
...unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...