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...books dealer and did a stint with the Peace Corps in Africa before he finally published his first novel, Mating, in 1991. It promptly won the National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence (and maintained his 1.000 batting average). Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals (Knopf; 715 pages), which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging and surprising and uncompromising as ever...
Though all end the same way, each case of Alzheimer's announces itself uniquely. Sue Miller's The Story of My Father (Knopf; 174 pages) starts with a phone call. The police have found her father knocking on strangers' doors at 3 in the morning. A quiet, spiritual man, he had been a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, but within months he was barely keeping it together in a nursing home. Miller notes his cerebral short circuits with stricken fascination. He began to mistake his shadow for "a strange black animal dogging him," and he could find only the food...
George Johnson's newest book, A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer, was published this month by Alfred A. Knopf...
...cricket bat, the furtive cigarettes, the obligatory corporal punishment--like buried memories from our Colonial past, they arouse atavistic, Anglophilic urges. Some people get their Brit fix from Harry Potter. They will get that, and much more, from William Boyd's brilliant, beautiful and exceptionally British Any Human Heart (Knopf; 498 pages...
...Price's fine new book to be one of my pallbearers, I might be O.K. with that. The novel is alive because writers like Price are crafting books like Samaritan (Knopf; 379 pages), about a guy who discovers the hard way what a complicated transaction charity can be. This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers...