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...ELSA PERETTI RAZOR, $325, AND THUMBPRINT SHAVING BRUSH, $195 Find timeless and elegant trinkets, like this sterling-silver razor and shaving brush, at Tiffany & Co. www.tiffany.com) Other gift options for men: sterling-silver money clips, crystal beer mugs and leather alarm clocks...
Successful religious novels draw on the same thing that Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy thrive on: relentless plotting, no matter how far-fetched. The king of the genre is Frank Peretti, author of four best sellers. His latest, The Oath (Word; 550 pages; $23.99), which has sold 500,000 copies, is a backwoods potboiler that shoots off volleys of suspense. Dismembered bodies start turning up in a remote valley in the Pacific Northwest (the Northwest is a favorite Evangelical site). The local law blames the killings on a deranged bear, but that's too easy. Better to look...
...Peretti, who has sold 6.4 million books, is a former bluegrass musician who lived in a trailer before moving to a log house near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Like most successful Christian novelists, he practices what he preaches as a devout Evangelical. "Part of being a Christian is that you share your faith," he says. "My writing is message centered." However, Peretti has brought his genre closer to mainstream pop fiction. For The Oath, Word, his new publisher, brought in "a New York editor," and the effort shows in the density and pacing of the plot...
...last week, one model looked as if she dreamed she was at Fort Knox. Clad in long green Ultrasuede evening culottes and a creamy silk shirt open to the waist, she wore for toppers a bra of solid gold mesh. The bra was designed by Italy's Elsa Peretti, who explained: "It is worn as a jewel, it has a good feeling on the body and it is amusing. You can put it in a little bag and take it with you anywhere." For about $4,000, you can take it out of Tiffany...
Foil--Roy Nonomura, Cornell; Richard Peretti, Princeton; Paul Chew, Columbia; Sabre--Losonczy, Columbia; David Jacobsen, Yale; House, Yale. Epee--Larry Kramer, Columbia; Daryl Taylor, Pennsylvania...