Show r ' - 41Ne$ 4 r E2 LOOKS The Salt Lake Tribune 4 SundaLgstober 20 1991 It All 'Things' gruesome and1 gory in King's new book 1 Castle Rock Maine which has been the site of so much unpleas antness in Stephen King's novels !is in need of a new municipal sign that reads: "Population — far few) er than before and fleeing" Needful Things is Castle Rock's apocalypse now ' For some reason King has deeided to put an end to the town where Cujo roamed and the author in The Dark Half sought and ' '4'ailed to find refuge t' Leland Gaunt's I d just-opene- store "Needful Things" on Main Street offers an eclectic mix of goods A little of this some of that and yet each and every townsperson who ventures in — and eventually they all do — finds his heart's desire Gaunt is a horse trader from the old school the really old school You want it he'll make a deal The boy who pays pennies for a Sandy Koufax baseball card worth so much more has :a recurring nightmare in which Gaunt insists he keep up his end of the bargain And what did he agree to? Oh right This sweet boy perhaps overly concerned with right and wrong is off on his bicycle to fling Best Sellers New Tcea TIMM Service The listings below are based on computer-preessed sales figures from 2000 bookstores in every : region of the United States Fiction Ilus Week 1 Icark41 Ripley 2 Needhl Things King & The Sum of All Yeas Last Week Weeks On List 1 2 — I 2 4 Clancy 4 Night Over Water Follett S The Doomsday Conspirocy Sheldon & Oh the Places Seuss 8 3 6 3 Tool Got 7 The Deceiver Forsyth 6 The Firm thisham & Flowers in the Rain Filcher 101 Saint Maybe Tyler 5 82 7 8 8 6 4 32 7 7 n not Last Week W ee k IS : tic 1 5 2 8 3 5 4 7 5 48 10 4 6 — 9 18 Hepburn 4 hen Jobs Sly S J Edgar Hoover Gentry & Fire fa the Belly Keen 7 trpoting Myeelf Rivera & Parliament of Whores ' ' ) I ' 0 Weest Stories of My 1de 2 Uh Oh Fulghum S La Toya Jackson Rourke 9 Den of TMtaewa IO Dowlestes Froveset Hoyle 4 23 1 16 i ' - - - ground This of course is only the show before the show for when the cur-tadrops on Castle Rock it is a town devastated by the mania that has possessed its citi2enry It may seem silly to complain that a Stephen King novel is merely a litany of horror After all that's what he intends it to be But Needful Things is a book that ' al 1014 'P 15 Books NE1011- Nobel zvinner Gordimer delivers bitter punch lines - &Al 14140 44"ole t p C9 eki lik ! Qv 1 I" ) 'tA!' - ''''' C041' A L tre10474tZliAdmo takes too long to get where it's going and when it arrives why we've been there before Which is to say the finale is gore more gore and then gore again In the past King's ability to in 1 4' - f - -:- By Ken Follett: 400 pp Morrow $22 plane becomes the scene of an ugly confrontation between her father and Carl Hartmann the nu clear physicist escaping Nazi Germany who carries with him the knowledge that will contribute to the making of the atomic bomb Tensions escalate again when the spurned spouse Mervyn Lovesey boards the plane in Ireland intent on reclaiming his wife With him is Nancy Lenehan another late and desperate arrival determined to get back to Boston where her duplicitious brother has scheduled a meeting that will sell her manufacturing concern out from under her Her brother and his cohort are passengers she ' :1 t IL 171 le — brought down in an obscure spot in Maine where they will board to carry out their evil orders Deakin must bring the Clipper to them even if it means attempting to cross the Atlantic short of fuel in a menacing storm only to deliver his passengers to danger Oh yes Night Over Water is hokey as hell but such good good fun — Sherryl Connelly New York Daily News Irl ' - — s A PI c: — Hear Vi 14 0 cjr 4 t o i 17A MON-THU- R Q CI HI ' - 0 MON-SA- T $595 1 BLK BEAN RIBS 2 1 r t ft - of ei 1 ' 'I(- ft: - 0 : A z - '0' I) Is ''' t '' -- ' )1 '' s 1 i —1 i " ' - 1 4 A - - flolliillato tv 4 " 4- olc aalliv P4!) ill i - 41111 4 trig!) 4 4 4 IIa I II lit - - E 14to Ammoonnommit ill P INII 111 1 9 1 & Fried Rice - - i 1 9 INDOOR OR OUTDOOR SEATING AVAILABLE 45 EAST 200 SOUTH - j ntu r E- OPEN MON-SA- 1030 AM - ! 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4mm' determined that the ship be razor-shar- - - 4 between family members lovers strangers "Safe Houses" recounts the brief intense affair between a revolutionary Ln hiding and a socialite "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" reveals an agonizing truth behind an accident in which a white farmer kills a black youth Of the 16 stories none is more chilling more terribly' tragically ironic than "Once Upon a Time" It begins: "In a house in a suburb in a city there were a man and his wife who loved each other very much and were living happily ever after They had a little boy and they loved him very much They had a cat and a dog that the little boy loved very much" They protect their love behind bars burglar alarms and high walls topped with stiff shining coils of "dragon's teeth" —-- Tuesday November 5th 7 PM Kingsbury Hall University of Utah 111 : i will have to confront over the Atlantic Meanwhile (in a book such as this there is always a meanwhile on which the plot turns) Eddie Deakin the ship's chief engineer is operating under a special set of instructions His wife is being held hostage by a band of ruthless men Night Over Water : Ji) ?Ste sinuate evil into the commonplace has made him a thrilling read but this time out there is no subtlety just gross horror with the emphaon gross — Sherryl Connelly New York Daily News INN Regular ' OFF Price Stories 257 pp By Nadine Gordime Farrar Straus & Giroux $20 message of many of her earlier tales There is a universality to the pain terror and confusion in Jump — and to the quiet deep moments of human bonding The sweep and the subtlety of the writing are brilliant Some of the stories are set in Gordimer's native South Africa some in London others — well they could take place anywhere Some deal unequivocally with the brutality and tragedy of apartheid but others explore the horrors of international terrorism the destruction of universal values All of which sounds pretty' grim And it is Ironically though the message that glows dim but steady through the dark action is one of hope It comes from the simple intense human moments in the stories — the relationships 4f4zze I Jump and Other setting and ican-in-exile) 1 411ta— kle:Ii: ' IIMMWWOMMItEPAhMUMOMMIIINSiaile anti-aparthe- id ALL FRAL:En PICTURES ia t Nadine Gordimer is a master of the punch line though certainly not in the comic sense The final critical lines of her short stories don't tickle the funny bone They strike smack between the eyes in the pit of the stomach and most painful of all — directly at the heart Her eighth collection of short fiction Jump and Other Stories transcends the rather specific South African (or SouthAfr- ' 1) eIMMEAROMMISSIMMilMNEIMMINIMI and he is welcome back This is the story of assorted and sundry passengers on the Pan American Clipper the elegant flying boat debarking from Southampton two days after England's declaration of war on Germany It can easily be labeled a ripping good read Mark Alder the radio writer is returning home to California with someone else's wife having wooed and won Diana Lovesey from the arms of her handsome but indifferent husband Mervyn a Manchester businessman Margaret Oxenford is the 19- year-ol- d daughter of a fascist British lord shamed to be following her tyrannical father into an exile imposed by the British government On board she achieves a skewed measure of independence by becoming involved with a lowborn Brit thief masquerading as an American with social connections The dining room on the luxury 40tY0 Pct Reedint So SIC SOO c Wt I Night Over Water is Ken Follett's return to the thrill( r genre A L213 ) ( r41441eP'r( m 1 Sat Oct 26 It Sun Oct 27 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm ts lIP:'?-w-- aoak 47:441 41 beating each other into the : HALLOWEEN PSYCHIC FAIII Nasonetogy l ''''' 4'' 1vot-- c 4 mud at laundry drying on the line in a neighboring yard Gaunt has an insider's knowledge of the love triangles simmering feuds and political rivalries that in small towns usually only make for talk The seemingly innocuous prank each townsperson agrees to play in return for carrying away that shard of Noah's Ark or that picture of Elvis reveals Gaunt's logic He is able to instigate open warfare where before there was only festering feelings Soon Sheriff Alan Pangborn is presiding over a town that is busting out all over Old ladies resolve their disputes with hatchets while others with hard feelings take to E0114m ' 16-- '1?:'"'"- 'Night Over Water' is Follett's thrilling return EIMEMIMERIMMIMIIIIMPIM i 1 rt:"t4'1' Stephen Kipp! 690 pp VIkirg $24 95 ry if 406"0-1- Needful Things - - I () 1 Mg IL) 11 OADte BalletIS'est SOOADEAV1 ttAKIATION 3111110111 I tP I |