cover image The New Confessions

The New Confessions

William Boyd. Penguin Books, $8.95 (480pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010699-2

``John James Todd, the tenacious, reflective, wise, ambitious, romantic filmmaker and adventurer who is the narrator of Boyd's fourth novel, is not a real person--except that Boyd delightfully makes him so in this ribald `autobiography' based in spirit on Rousseau's Confessions ,'' said PW. (June)