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...BOXER SHORTS: Kirkus is rhapsodic about "The Shadow Boxer," a debut novel by Steven Heighton (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin; February 25), giving it a starred review. "The ghosts of Jack London, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac all hover approvingly over a terrific first novel by Heighton, an Ontario poet and story writer...One of the finest coming of age tales in recent years, and a splendid novelistic debut by a writer who seems to be just now entering a most impressive maturity." Author tour...
...CANADA: Something must be going on north of the border. Kirkus salutes another Canadian first novel: "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson (Dial; March 5), giving it a starred review. "A finely crafted debut looks back to a young woman's harshly beautiful childhood in rural Canada...A simple and heartfelt account that conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret...
...STILL BILL: According to Kirkus, "The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton" by Joe Klein, the author of "Primary Colors" (Doubleday; March 5), is "a supremely fascinating look at a 'serious, substantive presidency.' No journalist is better matched to this subject than Klein, and his analysis deserves the wide attention it's bound...
...DIVING INTO THE GENE POOL: Kirkus gives a spirited starred review to "Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix" by James D. Watson (Knopf; February 5). "Part memoir, part love story, part homage to the brilliant physicist George ('Geo,' pronounced Joe) Gamow, this is another tell-all tale in the tradition of the 'The Double Helix.' Yes, Watson is at it again, recalling the turbulent decade that followed the world-shaking publication of the Watson-Crick model of DNA...Watson seems more tempered this time around, especially in the treatment of Rosalind Franklin. But the urge to reveal...
...SHOW ME THE MONEY: Kirkus cracks up over "Money Wanders" by Eric Dezenhall (Dunne/St. Martin's; February), giving it a starred review. "Money may wander but attention never strays in this comic debut. Dezenhall nimbly skewers the Internet, journalists, politicians, and public relations spinmeisters and their power to dupe huge numbers of people...Thoughtful, unpretentious, filled with laugh-out-loud funny scenes and delightfully realized characters. Place your bets on this winner...