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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Possessed By the Flesh | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solve It Again, Sam | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Enunciator | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solve It Again, Sam | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Enunciator | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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