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April 2000

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Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk: The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs

Poetry and Provers compiled and translated by David Galef

Tuttle (Paperback, $12.95, ISBN: 0804821275)

Publication date: April 2000

Description:

Ideal for both the casual and serious student of Japanese culture, Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk is the long-awaited sequel to the top-selling first volume, Even Monkeys Fall From Trees. With one hundred pithy new translations of insightful Japanese proverbs, each accompanied by a humorous illustration, this irresistible collection is both instructional and fun-a perfect taste of Eastern philosophy for the Western palate.

Collected Plays: Volume II, 1990-1999

Plays by Beth Henley

Smith & Kraus (Paperback, $19.95, ISBN: 1575252015)

Publication date: April 2000

Description:

This collection includes the plays Control Freaks, Signature, The Revelers, L. Play, Abundance, and Impossible Marriage.

The Cabal and Other Stories

By Ellen Gilchrist

Little Brown & Company (Hardcover, $24.95, ISBN: 0316314919)

Publication date: April 2000

Description from the publisher:

“This is the story of a group of people who had a bizarre and unexpected thing happen to them. Their psychiatrist went crazy and started injecting himself with drugs. The most useful and dependable man in their lives became a maniac in the true sense of the word.”

So begins the The Cabal, the hilarious novella that forms the centerpiece of Ellen Gilchrist’s sparkling new collection of stories. Dr. Jim Jaspers’s patients include all the most prominent citizens of Jackson, Mississippi—wealthy businessmen, wealthy socialites, even the governor’s daughter. Unfortunately for them, their beloved psychiatrist suddenly goes mad himself, revealing their deepest secrets and embarrassing misdeeds to anyone who will listen. The whole town goes crazy: some want to lock him up or, failing that, arrange a convenient accident. Others try to protect him. The rest are busily revising their personal histories. The result is a hilarious, bitingly ironic tale, revealing that our deepest secrets invariably are those best known by others.

The five stories that follow are classic Gilchrist, including another witty and wise account of Miss Crystal by Traceleen. In one story, a happily married nurse finds herself pursued by an old high-school boyfriend. In another, a grandmother makes a cross-country pilgrimage from Kansas City to Mississippi to see her family. From a literary writer struggling in Hollywood to the mysterious appearance of thirty-six gold coins in a small Southern town, these stories will delight both old and new Gilchrist fans. With all the warmth, wit and humor her readers have come to expect from her, The Cabal and Other Stories.