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...Abraham, its author announces that understanding how each faith, and seemingly each generation, concocts its own Abraham has liberated him to create his own, whom he whimsically calls "Abraham No. 241." This Abraham, he says, "is perceptive enough to know that his children will fight, murder [and] fly planes into buildings." But he also knows that "his children still crave God, still dream of a moment when they stand alongside one another and pray for their lost father and for the legacy of peace among nations that was his initial mandate from heaven...
...pragmatic, artless businessman, Lillian, Ted's love interest and Al's mistress, Windsor Newton the pioneering animator, and Nathan, Al's miserable, estranged son and the only other person who sees Waldo. Beginning in the 1910s and ending in the 1990s, "Boulevard" mixes such potboiler elements as murder, sex and betrayal with such themes as the nature of reality, the mystery of inspiration, the exploitation of pop culture and the redemptive power...
When you are a writer with that many axes to grind, it's only a matter of time before you produce a novel about serial killers. Not that the offhand killings in Lullaby (Doubleday; 260 pages) involve anything so blunt as a hatchet. The murder weapons here are words. At fortysomething, Carl Streator has been a widower for 20 years. He is a recognizable Palahniuk character, the kind who deals with grief by building small scale models of churches, factories and houses, then stomping them to splinters until his feet bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series...
...Graham Greene novel, Phillip Noyce's intimate epic dramatizes the mundane face of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Its release has been delayed, but Oscar-minded Miramax had better get it out by the end of the year. As an Englishman whose political scruples lead him to abet murder, Michael Caine gives a suave, smartly controlled turn that is guaranteed a nomination...
Though they cater to a clientele that's officially communist, China's restaurateurs are canny practitioners of free-market competition. Price wars, negative advertising?virtually anything goes. But in the eastern Chinese city of Tangshan, capitalism has morphed into mass murder. Someone sprinkled rat poison on breakfast treats served at the Heshengyuan Soy Milk snack shop in Tangshan, killing at least 40 people and sickening 300 more. The alleged culprit, arrested by local police, is a rival whose eatery suffered because the Heshengyuan snack shop was more popular. Such culinary skulduggery isn't new: earlier this summer the owner...