Complete book coverage for Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009
Inside this issue: The African Book of Names, A Mad Desire to Dance by Elie Wiesel, Who Will Write Our History? by Samuel Kassow, Waiting for the Apocalypse by Veronica Chater, Ablutions by Patrick Dewitt, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum, The Sailor from Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras, What Makes a Child Lucky by Gioia Timpanelli, See You in a Hundred Years by Logan Ward, I Wouldn’t Start from Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong by Andrew Mueller, The Watchers Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft, The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
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On “The African Book of Names”
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Ablutions Notes for a Novel Patrick deWitt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 164 pp., $23 You are rail thin, 32 years old and super white.
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The 81-year-old Holocaust survivor’s 49th book, ‘A Mad Desire to Dance,’ revisits themes common to his writing through the years.
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A memoir of growing up in a fanatic fight against the Catholic Church’s Vatican II reforms.
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Efforts to document life Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto in WWII beget a brilliant study.
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A travel writer finds the world a dangerous place, particularly when one sets out looking for trouble.
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Benjamin Parzybok’s novel presents three slackers on a strange quest to find a home for a piece of furniture
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The Sailor From Gibraltar A Novel Marguerite Duras, translated from the French by Barbara Bray Open Letter: 276 pp., $12.95 paper For many readers, the name Marguerite Duras is synonymous with smoky cafes and doomed love affairs.
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Fiction weeks on list1.The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday : $27.95) A dark secret forces a law school graduate to take a job at a corrupt law firm that could cost him his life.2 2.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney(Amulet: $12.95) Greg’s dad enlists him in organized sports in order to toughen him up.4 3.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 31 4.The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco: $25.95) A mute dog breeder is banished by his uncle à la “Hamlet.”305.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation.286.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality.287.Run for Your Life by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown: $27.99) A killer called “The Teacher” is offing the elite in NYC.18.The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $25.99) Aliens take over the minds of humans. 279.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $24.95) A journalist explores the cold-case disappearance of a Swedish teen heiress. 8 10.Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs (Ace: $24.95) A car mechanic by day and supernatural heroine by night takes on paranormal enemies.1 11.The Women by T.C.
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Fiction 1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3.
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Author and book events for the week of Feb. 22, 2009
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“The Man in the Picture” and “The Gable Window” present supernatural and cosmic treachery lurking in paintings and windows.
