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...becoming an all-too-familiar tale of midlife crisis. Lawrence "Tubby" Passmore is 58 and securely married with a job he loves. But he quickly finds all is not as secure as he believed. Tubby's attempts to recover make for neither enterprising nor funny reading, says TIME's Martha Duffy. But a meeting with a teenage love redeems both Passmore and the book. "By subtle shifts in tone," says Duffy, "Lodge has grafted a hackneyed case of worldly malaise to material straight out of an uplifting homily...
Dorothy West is a tiny, talkative, 88-year-old brown woman writer who lives and works -- and these days amiably inscribes books and serves tea to a procession of admiring visitors -- in the upper-middle-class African-American community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. Brown is her word, used carefully and with mild amusement, because among the Massachusetts resort island's summering black aristocracy, light has always been right, and shadings of color are measured with precision. When West was a child, as she relates in The Richer, the Poorer (Doubleday; 254 pages; $22), her new collection...
...front door, pausing in a phone conversation with a reporter. "Now, dear, where were we? Children. Yes, I should have had a dozen, but I couldn't have one. Children like me; I'm about their size.") Jacqueline Onassis, an editor at Doubleday and a summer resident of Martha's Vineyard, read the old writer's short pieces in the Vineyard Gazette, the island's weekly newspaper. She took to visiting West each Monday, and egged her on to finish a long-stalled second novel. When The Wedding (Doubleday; 240 pages; $20), a wry view of color and status...
Effective political speeches seduce listeners, Martha Eddison '86, the head speechwriter for former New York governor Mario Cuomo, told an audience of 60 at an Institute of Politics discussion yesterday...
...Reported by Wendy Cole/Chicago, Alice Park/New York and Martha Smilgis/Los Angeles