Non mysteries of note
THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS, Jonathan Coe, Knopf. $23.95
The story of three generations of women from WWII London to France at the new millennium. A stand alone from the author of The Rotters Club. The UK edition is the true first.
LUSH LIFE, Richard Price, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26.00
By the time you read this, I expect this book to be in its nth printing after a rave review on the front page of the NY Times Sunday Book Review! Price, who does write
mysteries, has written a novel that rips any veneer that New York had left, right off - so crime must play an important part of the story, surely.
OUR STORY BEGINS, Tobias Wolff, Knopf. $26.95
New and selected stories from one of the best. A retired marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq; a teacher is abducted by a student's father; a lawyer takes a very difficult deposition; and an American in Rome indulges the gypsy who has just picked his pocket.