A POUND OF FLESH Art Linson (Grove, $12, first published in 1993) Reasonably dishy Hollywood war stories from the producer of The Untouchables.

A QUIET LIFE Kenzaburo Oe (Grove, $12, 1996) The 1994 Nobel Prize winner's latest novel describes a middle-class family disrupted by a father's depression. Filled with lovely, subdued epiphanies.

SNOW IN AUGUST Pete Hamill (Warner Vision, $7.50, 1997) Brooklyn, 1947: An 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy befriends a Czech rabbi in a fable full of snap and humor.