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...interviews John Updike, 70, approaches him knowing that he would just as soon be sticking pins in his eyes as sitting across from your tape recorder. He has said as much in some interviews. So it doesn't help that his lovely and wise new novel, Seek My Face (Knopf; 276 pages), describes a long interview in which a journalist with a plain mind confronts a woman with more intricate workings. Hope, 78, is a famous American painter who is questioned by Kathryn, 27, a relentless art specialist who knows everything about postwar American artists except the deep sources...
...every sophomore should slump this well. The Little Friend (Knopf; 555 pages) is a sprawling story of vengeance, with few wasted words, told in a rich, controlled voice that can come only from long effort, which doesn't show ostentatiously on the page. Like History, it's a murder mystery in which the mystery is secondary. Twelve years before the novel begins, Harriet's 9-year-old brother Robin was found hanged in the backyard. Harriet's family--social pillars who have lost their wealth but not their hauteur--have not healed well. Her father has abandoned the family...
Sleep is the new sex. That's what it's come down to for the heroine of Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It (Knopf; 338 pages). A hedge-fund manager and frazzled mother of two, Kate Reddy aches for sleep, fantasizes about it and contrives how to get more, largely by avoiding sex with her husband...
...ready for a blaze of publicity for "I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother" (Knopf), a funny and smart first novel by British journalist Allison Pearson. The book, a diary of the travails of working motherhood, is already being compared to the bestselling "Bridget Jones's Diary." When the Pearson book was published in England last year, the Times of London opined, "This is Bridget Jones five years on." Obviously, this is the kind of talk that thrills authors and publishing houses. Pearson admits, "it is not a comparison I would wish...
...heap enough praise on Donna Tartt and her new book, "The Little Friend" (Knopf; November 1). A two-page feature story about the author and the book calls it "one of the year's most anticipated novels," adding that "this sophisticated sophomore effort is winning early accolades from booksellers." PW also gives the book a starred boxed review, its highest accolade. "Tartt's second novel confirms her talent as a superb storyteller, sophisticated observer of human nature, and keen appraiser of ethics and morality...'The Little Friend' flowers with emotional insight, a gift for comedy and a sure sense...