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...hovered over Ulster's uneasy peace ever since. Yet it is an English-born woman - a former globetrotting advertising executive now raising a family in Provence, France; she was only 11 when Sands died - who has dared to revive those dark days. Louise Dean's This Human Season (Scribner; 374 pages) is a novel constructed around the events leading up to the hunger strikes. "The one gift I bring to my books is my ignorance," she says, enthusiastically blowing cigarette smoke toward the ceiling of a London hotel lounge. While researching a follow-up to her award-winning first novel...
...affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...
Amy Lincoln, the Harvard-educated star reporter in Susan Isaacs' new novel, Any Place I Hang My Hat (Scribner), has nowhere to go but up. Her father Chicky was in and out of prison, her mother Phyllis abandoned her as an infant, and Grandma Lil was known to shoplift dinner on her way home. Why did the author choose such a steep mountain for her heroine to climb? "I'm kind of interested in social class, which we're not supposed to have, but of course we do," says Isaacs. "We're such a mobile society--upwardly, downwardly and geographically...
...sinewy characters who insist on inhabiting them, generally in the face of good evidence that it would be a wise idea to move on. She covered this territory for the first time in Close Range, a magnificent 1999 collection of short stories. Now comes Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (Scribner; 219 pages), another terse, twisty and entertaining assemblage...
Professor Frank R. Arnold of the Utah Agricultural College has at last revealed, or helped to reveal, a mysterious, not to say enigmatic phenomenon in the light of truth. Writing in the current Scribner's on "The Mating Season of Co-Education" he unintentionally explains just why the average importation to Harvard from the fields of co-education is so much at a loss in Cambridge...