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November 12, 2000
And Bear In Mind
(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest)


TIME'S FOOL: A Tale in Verse, by Glyn Maxwell. (Houghton Mifflin, $27.)

THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT: Poems, 1990-1995, by Glyn Maxwell. (Houghton Mifflin, paper, $14.) A novel-length narrative about a boy under a curse that prevents him from aging beyond 17, and a selection of poems from Maxwell's earlier verse; both deal with a central theme of modern English poetry: that life is being missed.

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, by Joy Williams. (Knopf, $25.) An intelligent, unsettling, audacious, virtuosic, improbable novel that may not want the reader's affection; the protagonist, a motherless girl of 15 in the desert Southwest and an absolutist animal lover, certainly doesn't.

BLUE RIDGE, by T. R. Pearson. (Viking, $24.95.) A literary novelist turns his hand to crime in a novel that alternates between a lawman's exegesis of a pile of bones on the Appalachian Trail and the concerns of his cousin, an alienated actuary whose son (whom he barely remembers) has come to grief.

ACROSS AN UNTRIED SEA: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time, by Julia Markus. (Knopf, $27.95.) An ingenious biographical study of the American actress Charlotte Cushman (whose exterior life could hardly have been less hidden) and Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife to the Victorian sage; both women of advanced savvy in radically different ways.

THE BEAST GOD FORGOT TO INVENT, by Jim Harrison. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) Three novellas, inhabited by the tough guys Harrison's readers have learned to love and dread; but now they are older and more ruminative, aware of their mortality and half supposing that the right woman might save them.

MASTER OF THE CROSSROADS, by Madison Smartt Bell. (Pantheon, $30.) The author continues the story of his own ''All Souls' Rising,'' energetically pursuing historical characters through the complexities of the Haitian slave revolt, particularly the great natural-born general Toussaint L'Ouverture.

W. E. B. Du BOIS: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis. (John Macrae/Holt, $35.) The second volume of Lewis's distinguished biography picks up Du Bois's life after World War I and pursues it through a series of trials and disappointments scarcely to be matched in the life of any scholar of any race.

POBBY AND DINGAN, by Ben Rice. (Knopf, $16.) A slender, touching, imaginative first novel set in Australia; its title characters are the invisible friends of an opal miner's daughter, and things go wrong from the moment the miner, drunk, loses Pobby and Dingan.

MRS. HOLLINGSWORTH'S MEN, by Padgett Powell. (Houghton Mifflin, $20.) A mirthful, wicked little novel whose protagonist, a Southern woman of a certain age and of a mind mostly unreconstructed, contemplates the men in her mind's life, notably the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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