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Lundy's knowledge of sea lore and history is rich, his pace perfect, his intelligence full of energy. He differentiates each sailor with a novelist's touch. When Frenchman Raphael Dinelli's Algimouss capsized in a storm in the Southern Ocean, he managed to get on top of the inverted hull and cling there. The story of his rescue by his English competitor Pete Goss--who bravely turned back into the teeth of a force-10 gale and beat to windward until he located Dinelli--is one of those anecdotes of miracle that can be enacted only in an intense...
...Perlman's Ordeal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $24), novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...
Most critics run on gas and sass. Jarrell, the poet, novelist, children's book author--what didn't he do, and do beautifully?--was a tireless lover of language. He fell in love (and in hate) with the poem or book under review, bringing it alive even as he anatomized it. These essays, selected by Brad Leithauser, open the reader to the Morgan Library of Jarrell's mind, ablaze with a sensible passion and aphoristic wit. "The people who live in a Golden Age," he wrote, "usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." When Jarrell died in 1965, criticism...
RECOVERING. STEPHEN KING, 51, horror novelist; from injuries sustained after he was hit by a van near his Lovell, Me., summer home; at a hospital in Lewiston. King underwent surgeries for leg and hip fractures and a collapsed lung...
Susan Cheever, a novelist and memoirist, is the author of Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker