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Halfway through the first chapter of this new novel by the talented poet and novelist Marge Piercy, one wonders what use there is in continuing. Fly Away Home, we can tell from the blurb, will be the intense and anguished story of the breakup of a marriage, and the subsequent discovery by a warm but timid woman that there is a whole world open to her. It is a familiar story; even under Piercy's talented pen--she is known for Woman on the Edge of Time and Braided Lives--what on earth could make it fresh...
...thriller splinters its focus and perhaps detracts from the overall effect of the novel. Piercy, at times, achieves quite a bit with both strands. For those who are fans of her candidly graphic powerful poetry, Piercy's newest fiction may be a slight disappointment. But she remains a serious novelist whose passion for the truth about her characters cannot be ignored...
Over the decades the section has honed the talents of writers who went on to fame, among them Novelist John Hersey and Essayist John McPhee. Recalls Hersey of his first TIME job, which paid $35 a week in 1937-38: "I got to know a lot of famous people, some of whom were dead." McPhee, whose term was 1958-59, still remembers a favorite epithet, "roadside gourmet," in an item on traveling Restaurant Critic Duncan Hines...
What Israeli Novelist Aharon Appelfeld relates in this brief, matter-of-fact story, more parable than novel, is the dissolution of life at the imagined spa. In volume after volume the author has been obsessed with the time of clouded horror just before the Holocaust. Two previous novels, Badenheim 1939 and The Age of Wonders, take place in prewar Austria. Tzili: The Story of a Life is a fictional account partly based on Appelfeld's escape from a concentration camp at the age of nine and his three years of hiding from the Nazis in the Ukrainian countryside...
...legion of up-and-coming baby boomers have needed a voice. As observers have noted, the Yuppies grind their own coffee beans, sip Chablis, dress for success and book passage on the inside track. But what goes on behind their apartment doors? First Novelist Mark Stevens knows, and he cannily details their secret titillations and minor tragedies through the adventures of three characters in search of a lifestyle...