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Last summer, when she sat down to write Unless, Shields knew what she did not want: a cancer book. Instead, she wrote about Reta, a middle-aged novelist whose daughter Norah has abruptly dropped out of college to panhandle on a Toronto street corner. Norah won't speak; she wears a sign around her neck that reads, simply, GOODNESS. Reta is Shields' not-quite alter ego, and like Shields, she is discovering a realm of pain she never knew existed. "The whole sense of sadness, of the end of things, of the broken vessel--everything is there," says Shields...
...they were not privy to any FBI memos from Arizona about some weird guys taking flight training. They were probably, justifiably, pleased with their plausible, entertaining variations on standard Tom Clancy themes. Good, for example, to substitute peach fuzzy Ben Affleck for the more grizzled Harrison Ford as the novelist's surrogate, Jack Ryan. He's such a kid; why would the President and his cabinet pay attention to him? Good to have Morgan Freeman as an amusingly bemused CIA chief and mentor to Ryan, intrigued by the latter's complicated, even humane, analysis of the intelligence data but never...
...from Main Street U.S.A. immerses himself in philosophy and art, has a cosmic revelation that leads him to question the system, and heads off down the highway to spread the news and stretch his newfound spiritual wings. Sadly, that's where the resemblance ends between the footloose Beat novelist and 21-year-old Lucas Helder, whose strange idea of raising America's consciousness was to plant explosives in heartland mailboxes...
...suppose I was asked to review this book because I am a Chinese novelist. But the Chinese women in Wild Ginger and all the other books in the Chinese Chick genre strike me as completely removed from the experience of the contemporary Asian woman. In the novel, Wild Ginger is regularly beaten with belt buckles and has to wrestle with big issues like the struggle for political liberty and the freedom to love. Quite honestly, the major issues I've had to struggle with the past month were a) how to lose weight, b) how to remember where...
...Once there, he chews gum, litters, spits and speaks rude words with abandon. A cheaper alternative: Manila GWYNETH PALTROW Actress debuts well in the West End. It's only a matter of time before she starts speaking in that lame, Madonna-ish, mid-Atlantic accent Losers DANIELLE STEEL Steamy novelist hogs 26 parking permits in cramped San Fran. The city may want to rethink policy of allotting spaces based on fabulousness ANN WINTERTON British Tory M.P. sacked from opposition post for telling an Asian joke. If this is a fireable offense, the Queen might need to find a new consort...