http://www.nytimes.com/ A synthetic RSS channel, derived from XML text published by The New York Times Company. en-us Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company Fri, 08 Jun 2001 19:50:08 GMT http://backend.userland.com/nyTimesRssRouter dave@userland.com http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/06/08/arts/08BOOK.html ". . . a rather ungainly narrative, potent and deeply affecting in its cumulative effect but often clumsy in its efforts to reach that end. . . . for all these considerable problems, it still manages to engage our attention . . ." By JOSEF SKVORECKY; Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/01/06/03/reviews/010603.03bawert.html "[S]he was an uncommonly fine writer of fiction. Tim Page and Tiina Nunnally deserve much credit for delivering her from her long and undeserved American obscurity." Edited by TIM PAGE. New translations by TIINA NUNNALLY. ; Reviewed by BRUCE BAWER. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/01/06/03/reviews/010603.03gottlit.html ". . . valuable as an example of the kind of professional criticism we can now begin to take for granted as distinguished members of the academy address movies with a seriousness previously reserved for literature." By MARIA DiBATTISTA; Reviewed by ROBERT GOTTLIEB. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/01/06/03/reviews/010603.03wortht.html "It makes the capital look like one of the deeper circles of hell . . . [The book's] greatest triumph is its narrator's voice . . . at times it can be glib . . . Still, there is something powerfully unsettling about the novel's ending . . ." By JEFFREY FRANK; Reviewed by ROBERT WORTH.