PATRIMONY Philip Roth (Simon & Schuster, $19.95) The author's unsparing and moving account of the last year of his father's life. A
VOICES IN THE MIRROR Gordon Parks (Doubleday, $22.95) Parks' autobiography is elevated above the customary success story by his willingness to admit some of the personal and psychological costs of making it in a white world. A-
A LIFE ON THE ROAD Charles Kuralt (Putnam, $19.95) A crisply written, episodic, often funny portrait of a painfully honest man discovering himself as he discovers his country. B+
LASTING IMPRESSIONS: ESSAYS 1961-1987 V.S. Pritchett (Random House, $19.95) A collection of essays by the last surviving man of letters, this volume includes shrewd assessments of cultural figures from Robert Browning to Salman Rushdie. These are character studies as much as literary criticisms. A
LIVE FREE OR DIE Ernest Hebert (Viking, $19.95) The fifth and final novel in Hebert's masterful series about the fictional town of Darby, N.H. A-
MIDDLE PASSAGE Charles Johnson (Atheneum, $17.95) The winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction, Middle Passage churns like an old-fashioned adventure novel, the kind associated with Robert Louis Stevenson and Captain Marryat, but with a wit and purpose more redolent of Joseph Conrad. A-
