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Conversations do that in Victories (Henry Holt; 298 pages; $19.95), Higgins' maliciously funny new novel, set not in his usual Massachusetts courthouse corridors but in hardscrabble Vermont farm country. A slippery statehouse politician named Ed Cobb tries to persuade Henry Briggs, a retired major- league relief pitcher, to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Briggs, a born-and-bred Vermonter and no fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball...
...Henry Holt; 199 pages...
...cookery has become more inventive, there is a resurgence of interest in both purely ethnic cuisines and down-home, regional foods. The best in this category are a pair of overillustrated but authentic books on country cooking from France and Italy. Recipes from a French Herb Garden by Geraldene Holt (Simon & Schuster; $24.95) is as helpful with its gardening instructions as with its recipes. If my lavender ever blooms, I'm going to try the ice cream with fresh lavender flowers and muscat. The companion book, Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse by Valentina Harris (Simon & Schuster; $24.95), is equally beautiful...
SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, EH, MR. MEESE? It was touted as a "behind-the- scenes account of what's really been going on in the executive branch for the past eight years," and its announced print run of 150,000 copies was that of a sure best seller. But Henry Holt & Co. has quietly decided to cancel Witness to History by Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan's Attorney General. An editor at Holt says Meese has failed to produce: "The fact is, we didn't get anything. Time had run out. We decided to stop pretending." The $250,000 advance will...
...McDonald's. He is learning the "langwich," he tells Danny. The sweet, agoraphobic Michael, Lauren's brother, a caretaker for an oil rig, trades commodities from his darkened, video-wired beach house (as cozy, Danny says, as the inside of a digital watch). Finally, there are Jane Holt, Newport Beach's first female police chief, who believes she can find safety in life if she can achieve order, and her old-fashioned partner, who knows the folly of that hope...