'' 'George III' and 'Prince of Pleasure' make a simply unputdownable ![]() His oldest son, however, George IV (1762-1830), the subject of Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency, by Saul David (Grove, $15), led the field in scandalous behavior at a time when London was the world's capital for debauchery. ![]() Was a churchgoing, monogamous, mostly competent ruler before going famously mad. Basic Books, $18.Īs portrayed here, George III (1738-1820) Last year our reviewer, Roy Hoffman,Īdmired the book's ''profuse and vigorous'' language.īy Christopher Hibbert. Of characters in sleepy Petal, Miss., in the 1950's, including Even Grade, a black orphan named for a road, and Valuable Korner, a fatherless white girl named after a real estate sign. This first novel revolves around a large cast ''At her best, Liebrecht is the equal of far better-known Israeli authors likeĪmos Oz,'' Suzanne Ruta said here in 1998. Originally published in Israel focuses on the fault lines between secular and Orthodox Jews, bereft parents and their torn children. The dramatic vividness of a novel,'' Karen Lehrman wrote in these pages in 1999.īy Savyon Liebrecht. Self-pity in favor of an emotionally mature distance, the author tells of growing up Jewish in the 1940's and 50's with everything she could want but her parents' affection. Nonetheless, ''there is a kind of mottled glamour, made up of bullying integrity and nonsense, of truth and falsity, which always makes the least of Hemingway'sīy Anne Roiphe. This fictional chronicle of an African safari, which was abandoned by Hemingway and edited by one of his sons, is a pale imitation of the writer'sīest work, James Wood said here last year. ''Theīest columns are those in which the author discards his hapless persona and allows his natural impatience and intelligence out of their cages,'' Elizabeth Gleick said here in 1999.īy Ernest Hemingway. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away, by Bill Bryson (Broadway, $14), is a collection of humorous dispatches written for a British newspaper about the author's bumpy re-entry into his native culture with his English wife and four children. ![]() ''The human case for the automobile has never been more persuasively presented,''īruce McCall wrote here last year. In Byatt's eyes, it is an unforgivable crime not to be curious about a world ''full of light and life.'' ''Byatt's prose is capacious yet exquisite,'' FernandaĮberstadt wrote in the Book Review in 1999, and this collection is infused with ''the throwaway gleams of a writer at the height of her powers.''Īmerica's obsessive love affair with cars and car culture as he drives from Miami to Portland, Ore., in a shiny new Porsche. ![]() The intersection of aesthetics and morality spins tales in which stolid, blinkered Europeans from the North become either imprisoned or re-energized by the earthier South and the warmer-blooded people (mostly artists) who reconstruction that has the fascination of an acutely observed and troubling novel.''īy A. Last year our reviewer, Lance Morrow, called this a ''chillingly thorough and superbly Of a doctor suspected of killing at least 35 hospital patients, and indicts the medical authorities who failed to protect the public. The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away With Murder
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