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...SAINT MAYBE by Anne Tyler (Knopf; $22). In her 12th novel, Tyler turns her ) generous sympathies and formidable skills to an investigation of the sources and aftereffects -- both comic and profound -- of religious faith...
Swept out of favor is the sexy image of '80s best sellers like Yves Saint Laurent's Opium and Klein's Obsession. The cry now is for romance. Lauder's ads for SpellBound simply show two people looking into each other's eyes. In a Vogue interview, Klein rhapsodized about days with his wife Kelly that have no edge and precious few events...
...SAINT MAYBE by Anne Tyler; Knopf; 337 pages...
...Saint Maybe, Tyler's 12th novel, fits neatly and logically into this progression. It draws on the strengths of its predecessors -- e.g., the riotous domesticity of Morgan's Passing and the painful loss at the heart of The Accidental Tourist -- while investigating more thoroughly than Tyler has ever attempted before the sources and aftereffects of religious faith...
BOOKS Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe looks humanely at religious faith...