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...sojourn in Spain is recounted with panache and subtlety in Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Seville Communion (Harcourt Brace; 375 pages; $24), one of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre. The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze...
...veteran TV journalist, Perez-Reverte is Spain's most popular author--understandably so. Besides its page-turning pace and vivid characters, The Seville Communion sensitively explores the lonely quest of priests and nuns for assurance in a world where God's voice is heard barely as a whisper, if at all. The novel's evocation of Seville's magic may well inspire readers to order round-trip tickets to an ancient city redolent of jasmine and orange blossoms...
...appeal was so generic and gender-based--breast-cancer research, abortion rights, child care, and her signature wrap-up line, "May the best woman win"--that some in the audience were left shaking their heads. "She was asking for my vote because we're both female," said Ginny Perez, a plumber who was taking a cigarette break after the speech. "That doesn't work for me. What I heard sounded like a TV commercial. And I don't vote for a commercial...
Davis is gambling that there are enough voters like Perez left in California for a poor man to win at a plutocrat's game. If he prevails, Harman and Checchi--like Michael Huffington, the state's failed millionaire Senate candidate of 1994--will have learned that California campaigns aren't so virtual after...
Montreal (Perez 1-3) at San Francisco (Gardner...