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...Some writers can carry this off; Boyle definitely can't. His new novel (Viking; 355 pages; $23.95) has possibilities in its discussion of the shuddering distaste of California's Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. But the author mistrusts his skill and the reader's acuteness. "This is weak, obvious stuff," says Skow, "worth a raised eyebrow and a shrug...
...blamed Susan Smith's murderous act on the Democrats' countercultural ethics (until it was revealed that her stepfather, a leader of the local Christian Coalition, had molested her). In his book, Gingrich rails against sex outside marriage and celebrates family life as it was portrayed in the pages of Reader's Digest and the Saturday Evening Post from...
...book centers on Cantwell's search for her place in New York; this search opens up her own life and all of New York for the reader's eye. Like Cantwell, readers finds themselves wanting to know what makes New York what it is "Maybe it's different if you were born here. Maybe then you are deaf to the buzzing and the beating of wings. But I had come from out of town, and to me New York was a hive. You could not just live here. You had to be somebody, do something it didn't matter what...
...huge, one-eyed wild man who lives in the swamps and eats roadkill. That this gent is a former Governor of Florida, an honest politician driven to distraction by greedsters, says all that is necessary about the author's view of government. Hiaasen's shabby secret, however (so the reader guesses), is that he loves his state's stupefying cheesiness, and wouldn't move to Vermont if you gave him the Trapp Family Lodge and a brand new snowboard...
With your report on pork-barrel deals [CONGRESS, July 17], you ran a photograph showing large cone-shaped structures with white plumes pouring from the top. The casual reader may believe the plumes are smoke, noxious chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...