Publishers Weekly articles from January 1991, page 6

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Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer.
January 4, 1991... ISAK DINESEN: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer Olga Anastasia Pelensky. Ohio Univ. Best known for her autobiographical Out of Africa, Dinesen's odd life is the stuff of fiction. Her Danish father, a failed adventurer, braved the Nebraska...

Red Express: The Greatest Rail Journey from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China.
January 4, 1991... RED EXPRESS: The Greatest Rail Journey from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China Text by Michael Cordell, photographs by Peter Solness. Prentice Hall In an unforgettable trip, Australian journalist Cordell records a shifting panorama...

Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist.
January 4, 1991... JESSIE BERNARD: The Making of a Feminist Robert C. Bannister. Rutgers Univ. Sociologist Jessie Bernard joined the feminist movement in 1970 at the age of 67. Over the next two decades, her eclectic, mainstream feminist writings (The Future of...

Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse.
January 4, 1991... SPARE THE CHILD: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse Philip Greven Jr. Knopf Greven marshalls a wealth of clinical evidence to show that beatings and spankings administered in childhood have...

Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds.
January 4, 1991... FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: Three Worlds Ann Percy and Raymond Foye. Rizzoli One of the most imaginative figurative artists of his generation, Francesco Clemente gives concrete form to psychic states, febrile projects of his relentless quest for...

Paul Cezanne: The Bathers.
January 4, 1991... PAUL CEZANNE: The Bathers Mary Louise Krumrine, contributions by Gottfried Boehm and Christian Geelhaar. Abrams Bathers--female and male--were an obsession of Cezanne and figure prominently in more than 200 of his oils, watercolors,...

Perspectives on Morisot.
January 4, 1991... PERSPECTIVES ON MORISOT Edited with an introduction by T.J. Edelstein. Hudson Hills (Rizzoli, dist.) While male impressionists painted the dashing life of Paris's boulevards, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) portrayed women and children of the...

A Conflict of Rights: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action.
January 4, 1991... A CONFLICT OF RIGHTS: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action Melvin I. Urofsky. Scribners In a lucid and dramatic account of an affirmative action case, Urofsky (A Mind of One's Own), professor of constitutional law at Virginia Commonwealth...

Maximum Morphonios: The Life and Times of America's Toughest Judge.
January 4, 1991... MAXIMUM MORPHONIOS: The Life and Times of America's Toughest Judge Ellen Morphonios with Mike Wilson. Morrow Morphonios, born into terrible poverty in North Carolina, has pursued an unorthodox career on her way to her present position as a...

Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti.
January 4, 1991... BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH: A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold, introduction by Jan Morris. Prentice Hall/Destinations Gold (Fathers) first visited Haiti in 1953 and has returned many times since to "my favorite place in the whole wide world." The...

Never Say Goodbye.
January 4, 1991... NEVER SAY GOODBYE Phyllis Rose. Doubleday/Talese Judicious selection and graceful arrangement mark this slim collection of essays, allowing Rose (Jazz Cleopatra) full range of voice. Considering the seductions of shopping (the volume is...

Faithful Attraction: Discovering Intimacy, Love, and Fidelity in American Marriage.
January 4, 1991... FAITHFUL ATTRACTION: Discovering Intimacy, Love, and Fidelity in American Marriage Andrew M. Greeley. Tor/Doherty Catholic priest, sociology professor (University of Arizona) and novelist (Rite of Spring), Greeley contends that despite...

Corporate Welfare: The Mega Bankruptcies of the 80s and 90s.
January 4, 1991... CORPORATE WELFARE: The Mega Bankruptcies of the 80s and 90s Laurence H. Kallen. Lyle Stuart Once a stigma, bankruptcy, according to this searing account, is today a popular device used by troubled corporations to shield themselves from tax...

Chimes from a Wooden Bell: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Euro-Armenian Family.
January 4, 1991... CHIMES FROM A WOODEN BELL: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Euro-Armenian Family Taqui Altounyan. Tauris (St. Martin's, dist.) Born in England in 1917, the author was the daughter of Dora Collingwood and Ernest Altounyan, a doctor raised in...

The New York Times Book of Science Literacy: What You Need to Know from Newton to the Knuckleball.
January 4, 1991... THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF SCIENCE LITERACY: What You Need to Know from Newton to the Knuckleball Edited by Richard Flaste. Times This candy-box assortment of some 100 short articles and accompanying sidebars and diagrams selected from...

The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in the Hau Nghia Province.
January 4, 1991... THE DYNAMICS OF DEFEAT: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province Eric M. Bergerud. Westview Based on interviews and extensive archival research, this is a first-class, scholarly study of the 1963-1973 struggle in a single province near Saigon....

Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon.
January 4, 1991... LONG AGO IN FRANCE: The Years in Dijon M.F.K. Fisher. Prentice Hall/Destinations When Fisher (The Art of Eating) arrived in Dijon, the ancient capital of Burgundy, in 1929, she and her new husband were both American post-graduate students, in...

Dubcek Speaks.
January 4, 1991... DUBCEK SPEAKS Alexander Dubcek with Andras Sugar. Tauris (St. Martin's, dist.) The Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 not only dealt a massive blow to Czech liberalization, stresses Dubcek, who was then head of Czechoslovakia, but Moscow's...

Winter: Notes from Montana.
January 4, 1991... WINTER: Notes from Montana Rick Bass. Houghton Mifflin/Lawrence They were seeking a place to winter in the West, a secluded retreat where he could write and she could paint. Bass (Oil Notes) and his friend Elizabeth discovered the Yaak...

Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men.
January 4, 1991... EMINENT DOGS, DANGEROUS MEN Donald McCaig. HarperCollins/Burlingame The dogs are Scottish border collies, bred to herd sheep since the 17th Century; the men are their trainers and handlers. McCaig (Nop's Trials) runs sheep on his Virginia...

After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin.
January 4, 1991... AFTER THE WALL: East Meets West in the New Berlin John Borneman. Basic Borneman, an anthropologist at UC-San Diego, interviewed a variety of East Germans to learn what it was like to live in the German Democratic Republic and how the Autumn...

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American: An Autobiography.
January 4, 1991... BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR., AMERICAN: An Autobiography Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Smithsonian, Davis, the first black graduate of West Point in this century, led the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron in WW II, commanded the integrated 51st Fighter Wing...

The Dog That Drove Home, The Snake-Eating Mouse, and Other Exotic Tales from the Animal Kingdom.
January 4, 1991... THE DOG THAT DROVE HOME, THE SNAKE-EATING MOUSE, AND OTHER EXOTIC TALES FROM THE ANIMAL KINGDOM Vida Adamoli. St. Martin's Some of these tales feature figures so familiar they have passed into folklore: Greyfriars Bobby, Clever Hans, the...

Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor.
January 4, 1991... ELIZABETH: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor Alexander Walker. Grove Weidenfeld Film critic for the London Evening Standard, Walker presents one of the world's most chronicled women, whose turbulent life has been eerily reflected, or anticipated,...

The Forever Boys.
January 4, 1991... THE FOREVER BOYS Peter Golenbock. Birch Lane Golenbock displayed his talent for oral history in his books on the Brooklyn Dodgers (Bums) and New York Yankees (Dynasty). Here he profiles the first year of the Senior Baseball League, a...

Venetian Palaces.
January 4, 1991... VENETIAN PALACES Alvise Zorzi, photographs by Paolo Marton. Rizzoli If any city could fit happily into the pages of a picture book, it's Venice: small, old, beautiful, palpably mortal. Venice's melancholy splendor lies both in its physical...

Naked Ghosts: Intimate Stories from the Files of a Sex Therapist.
January 4, 1991... NAKED GHOSTS: Intimate Stories from the Files of a Sex Therapist Carol G. Wells. Prentice Hall Reading like detective stories, these five illustrative accounts of her work reveal Wells's (Right Brain Sex) powerful respect--and talent--for...

Ghosts in the Mirror.
January 4, 1991... GHOSTS IN THE MIRROR Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Jo Levy. Grove Weidenfeld Rejecting the usual approach in auto-biographical writing of presenting a life as "a quasi-historical narrative... arranged in a causal sequence,"...

Patrimony: A True Story.
January 4, 1991... PATRIMONY: A True Story Philip Roth. Simon & Schuster Alter ego Nathan Zuckerman doesn't appear in these pages, and neither is there any sleight of hand blurring the line between literature and life. Instead, here is Roth (NBCC Award-winning...

The Cutter.
January 4, 1991... THE CUTTER Virgil Suarez. Ballantine/Available Julian Campos, having served Castro's Cuba as a soldier and sugarcane cutter, is presently a university student awaiting permission to emigrate. Five years earlier his parents were stopped at...

From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories.
January 4, 1991... FROM THE LANAI AND OTHER HAWAII STORIES Jessica Kawasuna Saiki, with illustrations by the author. New Rivers (Talman, dist.) These 17 short stories are as delicately wrought as a lei, with evocative portraits of Japanese-Americans and other...

Primary Colors: And Other Stories.
January 4, 1991... PRIMARY COLORS: And Other Stories Barbara Croft, graphics by R.W. Scholes. New Rivers (Talman, dist.) These oblique, finely crafted stories probe the elusive underpinnings of reality. People find fulfillment in their awe of the beautiful,...

No Peace at Versailles: And Other Stories.
January 4, 1991... NO PEACE AT VERSAILLES: And Other Stories Nina Barragan. New Rivers (Talman, dist.) A middle-aged woman attends a ballet class and suddenly decides to leave her husband. A young American girl living with her family in Madrid is attracted to a...

The Jamais Vu Papers: Or Misadventures in the Worlds of Science, Myth, and Magic.
January 4, 1991... THE JAMAIS VU PAPERS: Or Misadventures in the Worlds of Science, Myth, and Magic Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin. Harmony In this fresh, experimental novel, a psychotherapist, Hector Glasco, attempts to cure Hilary, a jaded movie queen, of her...

Consuming Passions.
January 4, 1991... CONSUMING PASSIONS Freda Bright. Bantam Bright's (Singular Women) absorbing look at the glamorous life considers how far (or how low) people will go in the quest for success. Fresh from Cedar City, Nebr., young journalist Lee Whitfield is...

The Wind Dancer.
January 4, 1991... THE WIND DANCER Iris Johansen. Bantam Johansen (Strong, Hot Winds) gets her new trilogy off to a promising start with a lively and imaginative blend of romance and adventure set in early-16th-century Italy. A small gold statue of the winged...

A Genius by Moonlight.
January 4, 1991... A GENIUS BY MOONLIGHT W.J.M. Brady. Washington Square The "genius" of the title is Jack Paley, who achieved nationwide fame on a TV quiz show for brainy kids, but at age 29 is drifting, working as a temp for an offbeat agency (his jobs range...

Side by Side.
January 4, 1991... SIDE BY SIDE Isabel Miller. Naiad Readers looking for a sympathetic discussion of lesbian issues, such as the nature of butch/femme relationships or whether lesbians should support gay political activism, may appreciate Miller's (Patience...

Secret Song.
January 4, 1991... SECRET SONG Catherine Coulter. Onyx, ISBN 0-451-40234-0 Worn-out plot elements make for an enervated conclusion to Coulter's (Earth Song) Song trilogy, set in the 13th century. Damon Le Mark's niece Daria de Fortescue is kidnapped on the way...

Friends and Fortunes.
January 4, 1991... FRIENDS AND FORTUNES Savannah Stewart. Charter Diamond, ISBN 1-55773-456-9 This shallow first novel goes for the glitz as it follows the lives of four women who met as students at UCLA's film school, but a hectic pace can't disguise the lack...

The Victim.
January 4, 1991... THE VICTIM W.E.B. Griffin. Jove, ISBN 0-515-10397-7 The "victim" of the title is a drug dealer named Tony DeZego, but this book's real victim is the reader, who is dragged through a flimsy plot that's overwhelmed by tedious, irrelevant...

Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of the New White Culture.
January 4, 1991... BLOOD IN THE FACE: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of the New White Culture James Ridgeway. Thunder's Mouth, ISBN 1-560250-03-8; cloth -02-X Village Voice correspondent Ridgeway (Powering Civilization) traces the...

Barefoot to Balanchine: How to Watch Dance.
January 4, 1991... BAREFOOT TO BALANCHINE: How to Watch Dance Mary Kerner. Anchor, ISBN 0-385-26436-4 While the author urges viewers to trust their own judgment, this informative, if uninspiring primer will help novice dance-goers to appraise a performance....

While the Shepherd Slept.
January 4, 1991... WHILE THE SHEPHERD SLEPT Matt Novak. Orchard, ISBN 0-531-05915-4 Each afternoon the shepherd falls asleep on the job, and his woolly charges steal away to town, hurry into costume, and hit the stage in Baa-Baa Broadway, an all-ovine revue of...

Michael.
January 4, 1991... MICHAEL Tony Bradman, illustrated by Tony Ross. Macmillan, ISBN 0-02-711850-9 Michael is "the worst boy in the school"--unpunctual, inattentive and disruptive. In art class he draws a rocket while the other children paint flowers; in math,...

Matthew and Tilly.
January 4, 1991... MATTHEW AND TILLY Rebecca C. Jones, illustrated by Beth Peck. Dutton, ISBN 0-525-44684-2 Matthew and Tilly live in the same neighborhood in the heart of a big city, and they do everything together: ride bikes, play street games, sell...

Rumpelstiltskin.
January 4, 1991... RUMPELSTILTSKIN Retold by Alison Sage, illustrated by Gennady Spirin. Dial, ISBN 0-8037-0908-0 This new rendition of the Grimm classic comes up short when compared to Paul Zelinsky's Caldecott Honor version. The retelling, in an odd mix of...

Chicken Man.
January 4, 1991... CHICKEN MAN Michelle Edwards. Lothrop, ISBN 0-688-09708-1 In her first children's book, Edwards draws on her experience living on a kibbutz to create this portrait of a kind, goodnatured man. Known as Chicken Man, kibbutznik Rody is in...

Tam Lin.
January 4, 1991... TAM LIN Susan Cooper, illustrated by Warwick Hutton. McElderry, ISBN 0-689-50505-1 With this Scottish ballad, these collaborators present the third episode of their Celtic trilogy, following The Selkie Girl and The Silver Cow. In Cooper's...

Tyrone the Double Dirty Rotten Cheater.
January 4, 1991... TYRONE THE DOUBLE DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER Hans Wilhelm. Scholastic, ISBN 0-590-44079-9 The prolific Wilhelm introduced his benignly naughty dinosaur in Tyrone the Horrible, and kids who loved to hate him in that lively tale will do the same...

Not a Worry in the World.
January 4, 1991... NOT A WORRY IN THE WORLD Marcia Williams. Crown, ISBN 0-517-58155-8 What do kids worry about? Don't worry--Williams (The First Christmas) knows. Her imaginative text and splendidly cluttered, boldly colored illustrations expose a number of...

There's One in Every Family.
January 4, 1991... THERE'S ONE IN EVERY FAMILY Candice F. Ransom. Scholastic/Apple, paper ISBN 0-590-42977-9 Millicent, a thoroughly likeable nine-year-old, is the shining star of this novel, which middle graders will want to read in a single sitting. The...

The Leaves in October.
January 4, 1991... THE LEAVES IN OCTOBER Karen Ackerman. Atheneum, ISBN 0-689-31583-X This message-heavy novel attempts to explore the desperate realities faced by a homeless family. Unfortunately, Ackerman (Song and Dance Man) consistently fails to move the...

Lyddie.
January 4, 1991... LYDDIE Katherine Paterson. Lodestar, ISBN 0-525-67338-5 In 1843, three years after her father abandons his failing Vermont farm, 10-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother Charles are hired out as servants, while Mama and the two youngest...

Dooley MacKenzie Is Totally Weird.
January 4, 1991... DOOLEY MACKENZIE IS TOTALLY WEIRD Janice Harrell. Pocket/Archway, paper ISBN 0-671-69669-6 "Be careful what you wish for . . . " is the theme of this novel, the second in a trilogy entitled Andie and the Boys. Andie Baker would love to have...

Star Struck.
January 4, 1991... STAR STRUCK Ellen Ashley. Fawcett/Juniper, paper ISBN 0-449-14583-2 This novel marks the debut of the Center Stage series about teens with theatrical ambitions. When word gets out that TV star Ward McKenna will be performing in a local...

Now or Never.
January 4, 1991... NOW OR NEVER Bruce and Carol Hart. Avon/Flare, paper ISBN 0-380-75963-2 It is not necessary to have read either of this novel's predecessors (Sooner or Later; Waiting Game) to grasp the essentials of the Harts' wildly romantic tale. Michael...

Where Are You When I Need You?
January 4, 1991... WHERE ARE YOU WHEN I NEED YOU? Suzanne Newton. Viking, ISBN 0-670-81702-3 During her senior year, gifted student Missy Cord begins to have second thoughts about leaving her home in Tucker, N.C., to attend college. Although her mother and...

Standing Tall, Looking Good.
January 4, 1991... STANDING TALL, LOOKING GOOD Gloria D. Miklowitz. Delacorte, ISBN 0-385-30162-6 For anyone curious about army life, this novel provides considerable background; in her preface, Miklowitz describes the research she conducted to give the story...

Freedom Songs.
January 4, 1991... FREEDOM SONGS Yvette Moore. Orchard, ISBN 0-531-05812-3 Readers interested in the civil rights movement will be touched and enlightened by this first novel about a black Northerner's growing awareness of the problems of segregation in the...

Ludwig van Beethoven.
January 4, 1991... LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN; WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Wendy Thompson. Viking, ISBN 0-670-83678-8; -83679-6 These first two books in the Composer's World series--intended to "illuminate the lives and times of the world's greatest composers"--are...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
January 4, 1991... LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN; WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Wendy Thompson. Viking, ISBN 0-670-83678-8; -83679-6 These first two books in the Composer's World series--intended to "illuminate the lives and times of the world's greatest composers"--are...