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...LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON (Scribner's; $29.95). The writer's marvelously acute and poignant love letters, penned during an ill-fated mid-life affair, offer a new look at the private pains of a publicly triumphant life...
...LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON (Scribner's; $29.95). The writer's marvelously acute and poignant love letters, penned during an ill-fated mid-life affair, offer a new look at the private pains of a publicly triumphant life...
...fact a splendid mainstream novel exploring a theme that links almost all good mysteries with the larger literary tradition: the burden of the past. Robert Barnard, a specialist in snide japery (Death of an Old Goat), turns deceptively gentle and affectionate in The Skeleton in the Grass (Scribner's; 199 pages; $15.95), which focuses on the subtleties of the relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer of 1936. Among the moneyed Hallams, who are paradigms of noblesse...
...oddest of the season's worthwhile offerings, or at least the hardest to explain, are William Marshall's War Machine (Mysterious Press; 220 pages; $15.95) and Reginald Hill's Underworld (Scribner's; 280 pages; $14.95). Marshall's 15 weird suspense novels are all set in either the Philippines or, as in this case, Hong Kong and feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has savage fun with police procedure, the culture clashes of East and West and the intrusive effects of each place's multinational colonial history. In War Machine, someone...
...York City. The animals speak with the voices of such stars as Billy Joel, who plays a jivy artful dodger (sample line: "Consider it a free lesson in street savoir faire from New York's coolest quadruped"), and Cheech Marin, who plays a Chihuahua named Tito. Says George Scribner, the film's director: "We don't write down to children. They're generally way ahead...