Fragile

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Fiction"Remembrance, sanctified and whole�"

FRAGILEBy Chris Katsaropoulos212 pp Luminis Books, $14.95
Reviewed by Gary Presley
We all seek what pleases us, fulfills us in some fashion.
Literary fiction adherents pleased by language, imagery, and allusion will be delighted by Katsaropoulos' Fragile.
I am swimming rigid, rolling in ink, amidst the weary crushing rocks which

Sourland: Stories

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Fascinating taboos

SOURLAND:
Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates
384 pp. Ecco
Reviewed by Madison Bush

Joyce Carol Oates excels at painting detailed portraits of characters with an inventiveness that astounds. Oates' newest book of short stories, Sourland, advertises itself as �A gripping and moving new collection of stories that reimagines the meaning of loss--through

Bill Warrington's Last Chance

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On both sides of memory

BILL WARRINGTON'S LAST CHANCE
By James King
304 pp. Viking

Reviewed by Denise Yagel

No regrets � is it possible to live life without them? This is the arena where debut novelist James King stages Bill Warrington's Last Chance, a story of complicated family dynamics complicated even further by the weighty vagaries of Alzheimer's. King rounds up

Precarious

Fiction


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Fifteen ways to find your way in and out of life's messes



PRECARIOUS
Stories of Love, Sex, and Misunderstanding
By Al Riske
Luminis Books

Reviewed by Gary Presley

As the subtitle promises, Precarious presents fifteen stories about that puzzling journey most humans take to find someone with whom we can sleep in the same bed for an extended period without descending

The Last Time I Saw You

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Do-overs

THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU
By Elizabeth Berg
244 pp. Random House

Reviewed by Dawn Goldsmith

I'm an Elizabeth Berg fan, but must admit that I can only read one of her books and then put her aside for awhile before opening another. They all tend to blend together, and it is difficult for me to sort out title and plot. I like her voice, her insights, her humor,

Lord of Misrule

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Burned-out horses and grubbing grooms

LORD OF MISRULE
By Jaimy Gordon
296 pp. McPherson

Reviewed by Gilion Dumas

Lord of Misrule is Jaimy Gordon's back-of-the-house view of small track horse racing. It is not a pretty view - everything is crooked, crippled, rusty, or staved in at Indian Mound Downs. The horses are burned out; the grooms, trainers, and jockeys are

A Price for Fame

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A PRICE FOR FAME
By Janice Brooks
298 pp. Xlibris $19.99

Susan Langley, a Hollywood movie star dubbed America�s Sweetheart and a devout Christian, is the heroine of Janice Brooks� self-published debut novel A Price for Fame. Susan grew up in an orphanage, is a former Miss America, and is engaged to Drake Desmond who is described as the king of Hollywood and who has a history of

Lowboy

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Fiction

Don't expect rye ...

LOWBOY
By John Wray
258 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Reviewed by George O�Har

Advance word on Lowboy is that the novel is the reading equivalent of getting poleaxed or struck by lightning. I�m not so sure. It isn�t a bad book. Not by any stretch. But is it a book you can�t forget? John Wray is a very talented writer. And there is much to admire in