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Toll on undercover cop's family is best part of tale - Review By DAN HERBECK - 3/4/2007
Make no mistake about this. Joe Pistone is a genuine police hero, a former FBI agent who risked his life to infiltrate and bring down a Mafia family in New York City. |
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And you thought Victorian women were repressed? - Review By KAREN BRADY - 3/4/2007
Rachel Cusk's sixth novel, "Arlington Park," is a cerebral "Desperate Housewives" - without a whit of action. But the thought and talk are plenteous, and often brilliant, in this tale of five young mothers living in the tony London suburb of Arlington Park. |
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Colm Toibin's masterful stories echo a youthful James Joyce - Review By MARK SHECHNER - 3/4/2007
Having recently published his tour-de-force of a novel about Henry James, "The Master," Irish writer Colm Toibin now sets out to show us mastery of a different kind: mastery over the short story. If the young James Joyce could have been flash frozen just after finishing the stories in "Dubliners" (that would have been 1909) and later thawed out after almost a century to write about modern Ireland, his stories might well sound like those in Toibin's "Mothers and Sons." |
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Workplace intrigue wears a bit thin - Review By CHARITY VOGEL - 3/4/2007
Wickedly fun stories can emerge from the workplace. Especially when the workplace skews corporate. Think back to Douglas Coupland's early, engaging books. |
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Fine portrait of an American sports icon - Review By JERRY SULLIVAN - 2/25/2007
We all wanted to be Pete Maravich back then. If you came of age in the late 1960s and early '70s, obsessed by basketball, you got yourself a pair of floppy socks and practiced throwing passes between your legs and firing up shots from impossible distances and angles. |
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A trio of post-9/11 novels - Review By MICHAEL D. LANGAN - 2/25/2007
If you can't tell a book by its cover, can you tell anything by the picture of the author on the book slip? Let's give it a try. Richard A. Clarke, who writes "Breakpoint," was counterterrorism czar for Presidents Clinton and George W. |
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