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SNOWSTORMS IN A HOT CLIMATE. By [Sarah Dunant]. (Random House, $15.95.) First published in Great Britain, this psychological thriller travels well. While American readers may not find the settings - cramped, gritty New York City and the vast, sparkling California coast, among others - particularly e...

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Published in:The New York times 1989
Main Author: Kent, Bill
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Appleman, Philip
BAYLIS, SARAH
BOSSE, MALCOLM
Cheney, Lynne V
CHENEY, LYNNE V (CHMN)
CLARITY, JAMES F
DUNANT, SARAH
FREITAG, MICHAEL
Garshin, V M (Vsevolod Mikhailovich) (1855-1888)
Gold, Victor
GOODMAN, RICHARD
Greene, Graham
Hartwick, Jed
Henry, Peter
HOFFMAN, ROY
HOFMANN, DEBORAH
HORNADAY, ANN
HOWATCH, SUSAN
HOWE, JOYCE
JOHNSON, JULIE
JUNGHYO, AHN
Keenan, Joe
KELLERMAN, STEWART
KENT, BILL
Lemmen, Bill
Levy, Deborah
Lordan, Beth
Lorenz, Tom
Mahoney, Tim
MARCUS, JAMES
MOBILIO, ALBERT
PAUL, ELLEN
Poverman, C E
Rayfield, Donald
SALZBERG, CHARLES
Selwyn, Gilbert
STEAD, DEBORAH
Steel, Danielle
Taylor, Philip
TRUMAN, MARGARET (MRS CLIFTON DANIEL)
Webster, Susan
WICKERHAUSER, OLGA
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Summary:SNOWSTORMS IN A HOT CLIMATE. By [Sarah Dunant]. (Random House, $15.95.) First published in Great Britain, this psychological thriller travels well. While American readers may not find the settings - cramped, gritty New York City and the vast, sparkling California coast, among others - particularly exotic, they will find the writing refreshingly economical and astute. Witness, for example, this nice moment during a trans-Atlantic flight: ''On the aisle seat a corn-fed American in a checked jacket was already settled into a Mickey Spillane. He grunted as I squeezed past him. A man in tune with his fiction.
ISSN:0362-4331