Rule of the Bone review echoes Huckleberry Finn in 1990s
Russell Banks' Rule of the Bone follows Bone a disenfranchised teen who leaves home at fourteen to live with an older friend then roams from a video store hideout to Jamaica led by a Rastafarian figure. The Orlando Sentinel piece compares him to Huck Finn while noting modern societal neglect.
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Rule of the
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Venice books offer hidden splendors and rediscovery
Fredric Koeppel reviews Cesare M Canaccia’s Venice Hidden Splendors and John Pemble’s Venice Rediscovered. The Canaccia volume surveys 52 interiors in Gothic to 20th century styles with selective photography and an index on opening hours. Pemble traces Venice from neglected 18th century status to a magnet for European and American nostalgia with writers Ezra Pound, Henry James, Ruskin, Proust, Mann and Nietzsche among its narrators.
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Cesare M. Canaccia
Mark E. Smith
John Pemple
Oxford University Press
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Grand Canal
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Adriatic
Negozio Olivetti
Olivetti Company
John Pemble
Ezra Pound
Henry James
John Ruskin
Marcel Proust
Thomas Mann
Friedrich Nietzsche
Literary review shifts to annual in award winning North Carolina Literary Review
East Carolina University announces its North Carolina Literary Review will move from semi annual to annual publication with the new issue. The edition centers on Black Mountain College history and alumni work, with overviews, memoirs, interviews, and new poetry and art. Copies remain $15 postpaid from ECU.
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North Carolina Literary Review
Black Mountain College
Asheville
Alex Albright
ECU
Albright
Black Mountain
North Carolina
the College
Thomas Wolfe
Bertie Edwards Fearing
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English Department
Greenville
University of North Carolina
Dannye Romine
Charlotte Observer
Reynolds Price
Fred Chappell
Jaki Shelton Green
Wall Street Journal Best Sellers Fiction and Nonfiction List
The Wall Street Journal presents weekly nationwide hardcover best sellers. The fiction ranking spans 15 titles from Anne Rice to Rosemary Alten, while nonfiction features 15 titles by authors including Newt Gingrich and John Gray. Sales data cover major U.S. retailers with an index tied to 1994 second half medians.
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Memnod the Devil
Anne Rice
Knopf
Danielle Steel
Dell
Pat Conroy
Doubleday
Madison County
Robert James Waller
Warner
John Grisham
Stephen King
Viking
James Redfield
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Harper- Collins
Sandra Brown
James Finn Garner
MacMillan
Robert Ludlum
Bantam
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
Phillip Margolin
James Lee Burke
Hyperion
America
Newt Gingrich
HarperCollins
Mars
Venus
John Gray
Gail Sheehy
Random House
Deepak Chopra
Amber-Allen New World
Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
Gerry Spence
St. Mary's
Neale Godfrey
Tad Richards
John Feinstein
Little Brown
Andrew Weil M.D
B. Dalton
Barnes & Noble
Bookland
Books-a-Million
Bookstar
Bookstop
Borders Books
Brentano’s
Coles
Coopersmith
Crown
Scribners
Super Crown
Waldenbooks
Fisher, Adm. J.A. Fisher Inspires a Biographical Caprice
Author Jan Morris writes Fisher a vivid portrait blending interviews, letters, and photos, tracing the 19th century admiral’s impact on the Royal Navy. The book reads as an intimate diary of admiration, with Morris at times sounding like a contemporary groupie.
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Random House
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John Arbuthnot Fisher
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