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This makes one appreciate Hugo Whittier, the narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing...
...disputed new turf for youth fiction. Its 13-year-old black hero, Sephy, starts out French-kissing her 15-year-old white boyfriend, Callum; encounters racism, alcoholism, depression and suicide; and ends up pregnant and alone when Callum is hanged for terrorism. In Blackman's sequel, Knife Edge (Doubleday; 364 pages), published this month, things take a turn for the worse. What really caught the imagination of young readers in Noughts and Crosses - and made Blackman the only black writer in the BBC's recent poll of Britain's 100 favorite books - was a simple, profoundly disconcerting, plot twist...
...pioneer in the field of comics as educational material. Later, in 1978, his book "A Contract with God" appeared, published by a small press. Twenty-five years after this first-ever "graphic novel," Eisner's latest book, "Fagin the Jew" (128 pp.; $15.95), has just been published by Doubleday, an imprint of the very mainstream book publisher Random House...
...hero of Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday; 511 pages) is smart, scrawny, sensitive Dylan Ebdus. He's 5 when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan...
...CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, by Mark Haddon (Doubleday; 226 pages...