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FICTION: A Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer ∙Yellowfish, John Keeble

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...YELLOWFISH by John Keeble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Driver | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Yellowfish is a searching novel of the contemporary Pacific Northwest that relies on an unchanging principle of the American adventure yarn: free, capable men enjoy bending the law, especially when they can keep moving at high speed. The book's title is slang for Chinese immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. Its hero, Wesley Erks, is heir to the frontier spirit, a man with "an eye used to sighting down a fence line and the barrel of a shotgun." But Erks is also a thoughtful man for whom yellowfish begin as a commodity to be hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Driver | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Driver | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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