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PAGE 22 THE CITIZEN'S WEEKLY BOOKS SEPTEMBER 7, 1997 BESTSELLERS NEW NOTED The Weekly Lists 'V- Here are the week's Top 10 hardcover, fiction and non-fiction books, compiled by Maclean's magazine. Bracketed figures indicate position the previous week. FICTION The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy (7) 2. The Underpainter Jane Urquhart (9) 3. Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald (1) 4.

Chasing Cezanne Peter Mayle (4) 5. London Edward Rutherfurd (6) 6. Unnatural Exposure Patricia Cornwell (2) 7. Deja Dead KathyReichs(-) 8. Cold Mountain Charles Frazier(-) 9.

Women with Men Richard Ford (3) 10. Apaches Lorenzo Carcaterra (10) NON-FICTION The Man Who Listens to Horses Monty Roberts (1) 2. Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt (2) 3. Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer(4) 4. Boom, Bust and Echo David Foot and Daniel Stoffman (6) 5.

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow Andrew Sarlos (9) 6. The Life of Margaret Laurence James King (-) 7. The Antagonist Lawrence Martin (-) 8. Simple Abundance Sarah Ban Breathnach (5) 9. The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger (7) 10.

Promiscuities Naomi Wolf (3) Ann-Marie MacDonald's No. 3 Atwater Market and Snowdon Theatre irv The Whisper of the Muse, 1865 from The works of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), an unlikely candidate for innovative photography. Her portraits of distinguished figures in letters and science give us a sense of powerful personalities. Northern Deco Sandra Cohen-Rose (Corona, $64.95) Colour and black and white photographs show the evolution of Montreal art deco architecture and Modoc Ralph Heifer (HarperCollins, $29.95) Spanning seven decades and three continents, this saga follows the life and times of a remarkable elephant and her companion and trainer. A tale of loyalty, friendship and adventure.

This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island W. Gillies Ross (McGill-Queen's, $49.95) This story of Margaret Penny, whom in 1857, set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Perry, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Arctic. A unique perspective on arctic whaling, the Canadian Arctic, and the interaction between Inuit and European culture at the time of the voyage. A World's Fair for the Global Village Carl Malamud (MIT Press, $54.95) A behind-the-scenes look at the Internet 1996 World Exposition from its inception through the closing ceremony, including profiles of the small group of people who made it happen, backstage glimpses into the elaborate preparations, visits to highlights of the pavilions and events, and visitors' comments. American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock Roll Empire John Jackson (Oxford University Press, $44.50) A history of the landmark show and the changing styles of rock 'n' roll.

Based on extensive interviews with direct participants, including music business figures, recording stars, the show's regulars, and Dick Clark himself, and featuring dozens of rare or never before published photographs. Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing Linda Katherine Cutting (HarperCollins, $34) As she starts remembering sexual abuse in her childhood, a concert pianist finds she can no longer remember notes of music that were second nature to her. NASATREK: Popular Science and Sex in America Constance Penley (Verso, $14) While NASA has flagrantly borrowed from Star Trek characters to reinforce its public image, even going so far as to hire Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) to recruit women, the reality is still "pale, stale and male," the author argues. Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of our own Extraordinariness Howard Gardner (Basic Books, $28.50) The author examines different kinds of brilliance in Mozart, Freud, Woolf, and Gandhi to argue that mental acuity reaches far beyond simple IQ. RECENTLY RECOMMENDED Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes Griel Marcus (Henry Holt $31.95) It is to Marcus's credit as a writer and a historian that the reader comes to feel thta he or she experiences the nuances of The Basement Tapes without ever actually listening to music.

Elliot Majerczyk A Leaf in the Bitter Wind: A Memoir Ting-xing Ye (Doubleday, $32.95) Ting-xing Ye tells her story with such a vividness of imagery and such a galloping momentum that reads like splendid fiction. Her memoir makes one realize that the life of practically every Chinese person who is over 35 years of age contains enough drama and grim farce to fill a large novel. Patrick Kavanagh Headed for the Blues Josef Skvorecky (Knopf, $29.95) From the first page of this wonderful work of autobiographical fiction, Skvorecky spreads in front of us the map of his youth, guiding us masterfully through the in Montreal 'it'- i' Annals of My Glass House its French connection through the contributions of leading architects and artists of the 1920s and 30s. Hurrah's Hollywood Portraits Mark A. Vieira (Abrams, $55) In-depth look at the work of George Hurrell, the photographer who, more than anyone else, was responsible for inventing the Hollywood glamour portrait.

The book traces his arrival in California in 1925 until 1943 when he photographed for three movie houses. Old Sweetheart Susanna Moore (Vintage, $16.95) A story of the despairing love between mothers and daughters. Lily Shields grows up amid the heady atmosphere of her mother's madness set against the landscape of Susanna Moore's native Hawaii. Now a young woman and mother herself, Lily tries to untangle those threads of love and loyalty. In Custody Anita Desai (Minerva, $15.95) When Devan is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur, he sees an opportunity to escape the miseries of his life as a frustrated small-town scholar.

But Deven's hopes soon for fame and fulfillment soon to disaster. OneL Scott Turow (Warner Books, $16.25) An autobiography that takes you inside the oldest and most prestigious law school in the country where Turow became a "one as entering students are know at Harvard Law School. Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability Bonnie Sherr Klein (Vintage, $18.95) Sherr Klein's account of her catastrophic stroke, the friends and family who rallie round, the health care system that both helped and hindered. Heatwave Penelope Lively (Penguin, $13.99) Pauline is spending the summer at World's end, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. As the months unfold, Pauline, who is editing a novel about romantic love, becomes aware that her neighbour will betray his wife.

THE CRITICAL LIST NOW IN PAPERBACK Details from the National Breweries, New Art Books Titian's Women Rona Goffen (Yale, $60) Illustrated with paintings of Titian, this book examines the artist's enduring fascination with the theme of beautiful women. Renaissance scholar Rona Goffen offers new interpretation of Titian's secular paintings of women setting them in the context of life in sixteenth century Venice. Max Beerbohm's Caricatures edited by N. John Hall (Yale, $45) The foremost caricaturist of his day, Max Beerbohm was hailed in 1913 as "the greatest of English comic artists." This anthology of his best images, accompanied by commentary by Hall, enriched by quotation from Beerbohm's own essays, letters and fiction. Andy Warhol: The Fashion Show edited by Mark Francis and Margery King (Bullfinch Press, $101) Today's merging of art and fashion is in large measure the legacy of Andy Warhol.

This book shows the decisive impact of his work on fashion and glamour and how that involvement has powerfully influenced contemporary art. Annals of My Glass House Julia Margaret Cameron (Scripps College, $20.95) There is a price to be paid, however, for his emphasis on narrative drive: the book is short on analysis, and the deeper causes and social ramifications of Colombia's drug wars are left in the background. Still for a gripping account of how a state of near lawlessness can impact on a few privileged people, News of a Kidnapping is unforgettable. Less favourably, John MacLach-lan Gray wrote in the Vancouver Sun: It is worth reading as an antidote to self-righteous simplicity when it comes to druglords, warlords and other Third World bogeymen We know in theory that the real world is more complicated; readers will be surprised to find just how complicated it can get. The labyrinthine narrative juggles a couple of dozen characters in a literary version of a plate-spinning vaudeville act and I must confess that for me plates went crashing to the floor at regular intervals.

I frequently couldn't for the life of me remember who people were. Robert Stone's comments in the New York Times Book Review were more measured: Garcia Marquez is a former journalist and News of a Kidnapping resembles newspaper journalism of the better sort, with a quick eye for the illuminating detail and a capacity for assembling fact. It will interest those who follow the details of the drug problem more than it will appeal to the literary following of Garcia Marquez. The translation from the Spanish by Edith Grossman is in keeping with the tone of the narration. The most serious criticism came from Charles Lane of the New Republic: Despite the florid pointillism for which Garcfa Marquez is famous, how many different ways can you describe a day in a dark room? The details become hypnotic in a way that Garcia Marquez never intended But these failures of style are related to more serious matters of journalistic practice The accumulation of particulars is a fine way to provide the appearance of verisimilitude in the absence of its reality.

It is possible to get the minor things right and the major things wrong. Simple declarative statements of the fantastical can be a form of propaganda Garcfa Marquez's just-the-facts posture is not only tedious. It is also dishonest. Robert Frost: A Biography Jeffrey Meyers (Mariner, $21.95) The commanding and controversial life of the beloved American poet. Those who thought they know Robert Frost's life and work will be surprised by the newly discovered, complex and sympathetic creature they meet.

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor William Julius Wilson (Vintage, $17.95) William Julius Wilson challenges decades of liberal and conservative policies to look at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. He argues that the problems endemic to America's inner cities from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime stem from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs. One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest Wade Davis (Touchstone, $21) This book follows two generations of Harvard University explorers living among dozens of Amazon Indian tribes. Two prize students follow the footsteps of their professor to unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant of the Incas. Mr.

Nice: An Autobiography Howard Marks (Minerva, $15.95) During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines and owned 25 companies trading throughout the world and was in contact with the IRA and Mafia. He was busted and sentenced to 25 years in America's toughest prison. He was released in 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. This is his story. Gabriel Garcia Marquez News of a Kidnapping Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Edith Grossman (Knopf, $35) In 1990, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar kidnapped nine journalists and the daughter of the country's ex-president.

They were eventually released, and three years later, one of the survivors, reporter Maruja Pachon, urged her friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write the story of the hostages' captivity, the fumbling negotiations of the government, the motley assortment of the drug lord's mercenary army, and the colossal arrogance of Escobar. According to Alberto Manguel, writing in the Ottawa Citizen: "(Garcia Marquez) was an intelligent choice Day by day, month by month, the characters in the drama shed the identity of their given function captives or guards, victims or victimizers and reveal their essential personalities in a tiny instant of bravery or fear. There are moments of terrible absurdity of grotesque farce of melodrama of quiet pathos. News of a Kidnapping offers no conclusion beyond the mere reported facts." "In News of a Kidnapping," said John Bemrose in Maclean's, (Garcfa Marquez) has woven a complex narrative that focuses on all of the victims as well as several of the country's leading politicians, the victims' families and Escobar himself endowing their tale with a thriller-like momentum. labyrinth of the Stalinist years in Czechoslovakia.

Srdja Pavlovic Love and Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra (Little, Brown, $30.95) Love and Longing in Bombay takes as its base the Mahabharata, which outlines the evolution of Hinduism, and explains proper conduct. Chandra's achievement lies in the way he ingeniously connects all that is oldest and deepest within Hindu traditions with whatever is newest and most superficial in Bombay society..