cover image Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France

Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France

Nicholas Delbanco. Atlantic Monthly Press, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-87113-362-5

Novelist Delbanco tenders a record of his sojourns in Provence over the past three decades. ``Too scanty on evocative description to serve as a travelogue, and lacking a unifying organizational plan, the book suggests a diary directed to an indulgent friend,'' concluded PW . (July)