The latter is an epic of a Dutch and an English family from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, through the Revolution, when it became the new nation's city of dreams. Hague's book is a Victorian tale of forbidden love between the daughter of a prominent New York family and the house servant of wealthy French American slaveholders. Oh, and she's the daughter of Arthur Miller and the wife of Daniel Day-Lewis. It is the first book in a decade from the author of UnCivil Seasons and Time's Witness . In this one, the author of The Sot-Weed Factor writes about an older novelist and a young hypertext writer intent on toppling his master.
Booksellers observe that follow-ups often are disappointing, but they still take notice.
The estate of Daphne du Maurier handpicked the author of Destiny to return to Manderley. At least we know the author will not be sued for libel. Livesey, author of The Missing World and Homework , focuses on an orphaned girl in Scotland haunted by companions from the otherworld. Personal history, or memoir, lies somewhere between fiction and nonfiction, and there are plenty of them this fall. Modeled after W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk , Wideman uses his passion for basketball to tell a story that will attract both a literary and a sports audience.