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\"A major corporate hostile takeover is complicated by the Board's handling of a mysterious hacker who is somehow selectively sabotaging the core data storage integrity of key corporate personnel while, at the same time, the CFO finds himself having to face the personal consequences of his earlier life in the CIA. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Is gouging going on at the pump?
Those costs of gasoline not borne by the sport-utility-vehicle owner (of whom I confess I am one) include the discomfort, health and ecological effects of air pollution, the profoundly disruptive warming of the Earth's atmosphere, not to mention the burden on U.S. security because of its need for oil from countries that are at best unstable and at worst enemies of the U.S.
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A guide for those who don't--and do--get jazz
In this regard [Tom Piazza] is particularly good when describing the nearly ineffable rhythmic complexity of jazz, which is often described as the groove or swing. The way jazz performers interact with the steady rhythmic pulse is one of its most distinctive features, as anyone who has heard a classical musician struggle with a jazz tune immediately recognizes. And yet it is devilishly hard to describe how jazz rhythm works. Piazza uses an explanatory analog-- a common children's swing--so wonderfully that I won't attempt to paraphrase it.
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King Lear in the Middle West Jane Smiley builds an American tragedy on Shakespearean soil
It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt the idle moment and insinuate itself amid the practical concerns that press upon the mind of the reader who is away from the book. Jane Smiley's \"A Thousand Acres,\" which time and again courts literary failure, speaks with such growing authority that it overcomes all the dangers it creates for itself and triumphs even as its characters fall. This is the deepest way in which it resembles \"King Lear,\" from which it freely and explicitly borrows. \"A Thousand Acres\" is a true American tragedy, like Theodore Dreiser's novel, even more like Arthur Miller's \"Death of a Salesman.\" Its despair is wholly genuine, and it is fully redeemed through the art of its telling. Smiley places the story of Lear in the farmlands of Iowa and tells it, in effect, from the point of view of Goneril. An aging father decides to divide his large and prosperous farm-built through hard work and relentless acquisitiveness-among his three daughters. One, who has moved to the city and become a lawyer, resists, and he cuts her out of the arrangement, like Shakespeare's Cordelia, the good daughter who refuses to flatter her father to get ahold of his estate. The other two go along, but almost immediately the arrangement begins to sour.
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A NOVEL OF IDEAS, IT NEVER GOES DRY
Lines of Light By Daniele Del Giudice Translated by Norman MacAfee and Luigi Fontanella Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 154 pages, $19.95 It is a shame to have to disclose that Daniele Del Giudice's new book, \"Lines of Light,\" is a novel of ideas, because that category includes so many works that are arid, abstracted and hard to understand. This book isn't any of those. It is, quite simply, fascinating. Del Giudice writes in a style as spare as Hemingway's and as enchanting as Borges', giving the book the feel of Jake Barnes gone to Buenos Aires, which is a large part of its charm. The simplicity of the language and syntax make the subtlety of its argument accessible. This intelligent novel does not nag at the reader to admire its erudition.
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'SILENCE' IS GOLDEN MANY VOICES BLEND SMOOTHLY INTO A HARROWING STORY
A promising but elusive young woman, admired for all the usual reasons, dies of an overdose in Manhattan. Whether the story of this sadly ordinary event comes to anything depends on how the writer decides to tell it. For Madison Smartt Bell in his latest book, \"The Year of Silence,\" the death is like a crystal, a transparant, sharp-edged fact that refracts all light and separates the colors. The story becomes many stories, a collection, each of them in its own way pure and whole. The most trivial way to describe Bell's approach is to say that every chapter examines the death of the young woman known as Marian from a different point of view: that of her lover, her drug connection, the street freak she gives money to, the cop who is called to the scene.
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GIVING DANTE HIS DUE
The Divine Comedy By Dante Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, illustrated by Barry Moser U. of Calif. Press, three volumes, $75 And one of the blessings of this new edition of Dante's \"Divine Comedy\" is that its lovely English translation and haunting illustrations refresh the masterpiece for people whose lingistic limitations, like my own, deprive them of the pleasure of the original. The University of California Press edition of the \"Inferno,\" \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\" is beautifully done. It is an elegantly produced book, magnificently illustrated by Barry Moser and translated by Allen Mandelbaum with such delicacy that, while it surely cannot substitute for the Italian text (which is printed on pages opposite the English) it is possible to forget what is lost in the glory of discovery of the beauty that remains.
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ESTHETIC MYSTERIES PAUL AUSTER RAISES THE STAKES FOR SUSPENSE NOVELS
In the Country of Last Things By Paul Auster Viking, $14.95, 171 pages The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room By Paul Auster Sun & Moon Press; \"City of Glass,\" 203 pages, $13.95; \"Ghosts,\" 96 pages, $12.95; \"The Locked Room,\" 179 pages, $13.95 You can see Paul Auster in his remarkable \"New York Trilogy\" struggling to find a common ground between esthetic depth and crafty suspense. Though the first two novels of the trilogy are fascinating, it is not until the final volume, \"The Locked Room,\" that he is able to get the genre's strength to work toward his own ends. All three books play with the common, post-modernist device of blurring the distinction between author and text. A man named Paul Auster appears in one of the books. And individuals with much of Auster's personal history--at least if the book jacket biographies of Auster are accurate--become important characters, though they take different names.
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'FALL OF SAIGON': A DRAMATIC, CHAOTIC DOCUMENTARY THE FALL OF SAIGON BY DAVID BUTLER, SIMON & SCHUSTER, 510 PAGES, $17.95
This should have been a wrenching book, the chronicle of the most ignominious retreat in American history. Ten years ago, the last helicopter lifted off from the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon, leaving behind thousands of South Vietnamese who had relied on this country and whose choice of loyalties put them in peril. It is hard to forget the pictures of the desperate Vietnamese clamoring for a way out, the tired, dispirited Americans, the refugees streaming away from the victorious North Vietnamese army. It was a defeat of epic proportions, a human tragedy, the end of an illusion. But here is a small measure of what is so disappointing about the book. Less than 150 pages later, Butler has this to say: \"Henry Luce called it the American Century. It lasted 21 years, 11 months and 15 days, Pearl Harbor to Lee Harvey Oswald.\" The American Century ends twice in \"The Fall of Saigon.\" It is a piece of carelessness that is all too characteristic of the work as a whole.
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