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Landscape and: Memory, Simon 0

Schama (Random House) $45 |

HIS 1S a “sleeper,”

unquestionably the |,

“big think” book of » : ‘the year for discerning read- “ers, : Schama is a “culture critic” (for lack of a better term), in: that he

draws: on an astonishing breadth of

knowledge (history, painting, litera- ture, architecture) to back “a narra- .tive that is. almost “chatty” in its

“accessibility as he surveys our’

‘mythological, historical, political, -and’: cultural relationship . with

'nature: woods, rocks, rivers, moun-.

tains, etc. _’ * Lavishly and pointedly illustrat- <- ed, brilliantly researched. Don’t be “ put off by the slightly pedantic ~ introduction: the text is a marvel of clarity and insight at every turn of | ‘ the page. ¢ “This is one of those rare books you savor; read a page. lie back and 2 think, read another page. takea

ROSTER OF best-of-summer reading ranges from lavish to light.

». waik and think, etc. In an age that

blindly worships data for its own sake, this is one of those great syn- thetic books that cuts through the crud crust of history and makes

“sense of the essential,

A Private View, (Random House) $27 Brookner is without doubt the

smartest woman on the rampage in. ,

literary Britain today. She's won every literary prize going while .”

Anita Brookner

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holding down’ the job as first -

female Slade Professor of art at

Cambridge University since 1968. Her books are brilliant, yet curi-

ously boring: They point up the dif-.,

ference between British and

American fiction: in British fiction:

the characters exchange polite banal pleasantries, agonize internal- ly and nothing much happens; in American fiction lots happens, peo- ple yell and fight and introspection

’ is usually confined to cynical quips.

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

Traitors Gate,.. Anne > . (Fawceti/Columbine) $29.95 |” ? _ Perry is making a fine career out of “Made for. BBC Mystery” nov- els, featuring Scotland Yard's

Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte:

the Nick and. Nora Charles of Victorian London. This clips right along, but the plot. involving a: secret conspiracy, “The Inner

Circle,” devoted to supporting Cecil“” Rhodes’ brutal brand of colonialism’ in Africa, is pure Robert Ludium in

“TAKE US TO GO

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Perry :

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costumes and sets leftover from the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series: .

Home From: the - Party, Robert ’. MacLean (Ronsdale Press) $12.95 © ». Nice to see a local small press publishing fiction aimed at a wider audience than the literary mag crowd, Toronto-bern MacLean has ali the elements of a great “ mystery/suspensé novel here: a beautiful Greek island populated - - with the dregs of the international sel, ex-mercenary gun-runners, , - “washed-up artists. gay British MPs and a mysterious (and dead) Greek playboy. The ending is odd, though —- MacLeun ‘evidently trying to do. something more than the standard solution/resolution scene, but it’s "100 sudden, almost as though he : heard the final boarding call for his flight to Greece and had to finish up. : ‘

‘ Highways and‘ Dancehalls,: Diana. Atkinson (Knopf Canada) $25- Getting your first novel pub- ; “lished by'a major. while you're still in university is a good sign.’ Atkinson succeeds rather too well | at revealing the grungy miserable banality of the lives of exotic ;° dancers on the road in B.C.,.” exploited by everybody from club, owners to jerk drug-dealing we boyfriends... : But the novel, like the girls, ulti; mately goes nowhere and remains ©.» an exercise in American-style mini-. malist realism that wears thinner; ° ‘than a G-string. You know she’s got. - more to give; this book just whets your appetite for those to come...”

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