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J. P. Smith, Author St. Martin's Press $11.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-312-51016-9
Nicholas, called Kolya by his intimates, is a 27-year-old library science student who falls in love with Suzanne, called Jack by everyone, a young woman in his English history class. Kolya is also the direct descendent of Mikhail, a Russian who...
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J. P. Smith, Author Viking Books $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-83903-2
This slim but ambitious novel, digressing continually into meditations on the relations between life and art, will both enchant with its spare, limpid prose and exasperate with its evasions. Smith ( The Blue Hour ; The Man from Marseille ) circles...
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J. P. Smith, Author Penguin Books $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-015275-3
Smith's ambitious but also exasperating novel tells of the disappearance of a novelist's wife and the aftermath, while digressing to reflect on several Vermeer paintings. (Jan.)
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J. P. Smith, Author Viking Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-86046-3
After opening in violence and unexplained death, this thoughtful, patiently crafted interior novel set somewhere in contemporary New England, quickly relegates its murder mystery to the status of subplot, focusing instead on a new widow's...
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J. P. Smith, Author, James Linville, Editor British American Publishing $17.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-945167-12-9
The ``blue hour'' is both a sensuous moment when the sun sets or rises, and the name of the perfume favored by a missing woman, Honnie Fust, in this erotic psychological mystery. After disappearing from her Paris apartment, Honnie phones her devoted
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