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BOOKS . . . KOWLOON TONG: On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People?s Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Paul Theroux?s ?Kowloon Tong? (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) offers Theroux?s imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared -- and will fare -- in the face of such a monumental and imminent change, writes TIME Literary Critic Paul Gray. Neville Mullard, 43, lives with his widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage...
...Just's beguiling personalities has always been the nation's capital. The mystique lives on in Echo House (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25), a novel that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power...
...after 30 years, many of his mainstream colleagues still remember him mostly for his marijuana studies and persist in seeing him, at best, as a drug apologist and, at worst, as an advocate. Weil hasn't always helped his own cause: his third book, From Chocolate to Morphine (Houghton Mifflin, 1983), seemed to argue for the essential blamelessness of most mind-altering drugs and to make little distinction between plants like cocoa and plants like coca--at least in terms of their potential for abuse. Since his recent fame, Weil appears to have become a bit less public with beliefs...
...involved in Fathers? Day (which is yet another Americanized version of a French farce) is quite working to full capacity. As long as they?re borrowing from offshore sources, why not this old, curiously appropriate title: Memoirs of Underdevelopment." BOOKS . . . ECHO HOUSE: Ward Just's new novel (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25) returns to his familiar territory of the nation's capitol in a story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist in the early ?60s, writes from experience," says...
This spring an unusual and virtually simultaneous blooming of senior novelists is taking place. Norman Mailer (see following review), Saul Bellow, the mysterious Thomas Pynchon and a seemingly perennial Philip Roth all have new works scheduled for publication. American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin; 423 pages; $26) is Roth's fourth offering in fewer than seven years, making the 64-year-old a sort of Cal Ripkin of American letters...