A Pound of Flesh Art Linson (Grove, first published in 1993) Reasonably dishy Hollywood war stories from the producer of The Untouchables.
A Quiet Life Kenzaburo Oe (Grove, 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, 1997) Brooklyn, 1947: An 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy befriends a Czech rabbi in a fable full of snap and humor.
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