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CHARGED. DANIEL PELOSI, 40, electrician; with second-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of wealthy Manhattan financier Theodore Ammon in Ammon's ivy-covered East Hampton, N.Y., mansion; in Riverhead, N.Y. The case captured tabloid headlines, as Pelosi married Ammon's widow three months after the murder. He has pleaded not guilty...
Polish has its place, however, and Chang-rae Lee's majestic, moving novel Aloft (Riverhead; 343 pages) reminds us why. The hero of Aloft is Jerry Battle: 59, semi-retired after a long and successful career as a landscaper, with money to burn and the world on a string. Jerry works part time at a travel agency, but just to keep busy. His handsome son runs the family business; his lovely daughter is getting married. For kicks he takes his little three-seater Cessna up to fly around in circles over suburban Long Island. Life is swell...
American fashion guru Diana Vreeland once said that elegance is innate. "Codswallop," reply Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, authors of the new book WHAT NOT TO WEAR (Riverhead). They are hosts of the BBC's reality series of the same name, which shows real women with real bodies how to dress with confidence. "Looking stylish is not about following fashion, losing weight, being rich or succumbing to the knife," they say. The book contains photographs of dos and don'ts (as in the harlequin number at left), punctuated by cheeky Briticisms. Divided into chapters with such labels as "Big Boobs...
...Color of Water publisher, Riverhead Books, has donated 500 copies to the city, and the Cambridge Public Library has ordered 50 copies in addition to its existing collection...
Iain Pears' The Dream of Scipio (Riverhead; 398 pages) ticks along at a slower, statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization...