Wifeshopping Stories
Steven Wingate
Mariner Books: 192 pp., $13.95 paper
ONE OF the cruelest ironies of modern letters is that so many books are written about male insecurity – consider the oeuvres of Bellow and Updike, and work down from there – and yet so few readers of serious fiction seem to be men.
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THE British author Nick Hornby has made a booming career out of
masculinity and its discontents.
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IN the introduction to this sprawling account of life as a member
of the London-based comedy sextet Monty Python, Michael Palin takes
pains to portray the book’s format as an attribute.
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WE come now to the inevitable result of our addiction to fame: the
celebrity dishwasher.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S eighth novel is frantic, inventive, sporadically
insightful and frequently sickening.
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AMERICA as a source of European literary fascination dates back at
least as far as Alexis de Tocqueville, who spent nine months
traversing the country in 1831, interviewing everyone from presidents
to prisoners on his way to compiling “Democracy in America.”
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JON CLINCH has staked himself to a stiff challenge in his debut
novel: casting Mark Twain’s monstrous creation Pap Finn – feckless
father of Huck – as a leading man.
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GRANT STODDARD’s “Working Stiff” opens with a bang.
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BRIAN REMY, the hero of Jess Walter’s ambitious fourth novel, “The
Zero,” is a burned-out New York City cop with serious time management issues.
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FULL disclosure: I hate the Boston Red Sox.
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