Inside this month's issue of BookPage

November 2003
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
November BookPage interviews:

Amy Tan: Bouncing back from a fateful illness

Amy Tan had fervidly hoped to publish her fifth novel this fall, but fate would not allow it. Tan, who exploded onto the world literary stage with The Joy Luck Club in 1989, had just returned from a four-month worldwide tour in June 2001 promoting her fourth best-selling novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter, when she knew something was very, very wrong...

Peter Carey: The Booker Prize winner investigates the seduction of the scam

You would think that a novelist who has twice won the prestigious Booker Prize would be set for life. But such are the vagaries of literary fortune that Peter Carey found himself driving over the George Washington Bridge some time ago telling his wife that they faced a situation in which they had half as much money coming in as they had expected. Fortunately Carey's latest venture turns out to be his riskiest and most pleasurable bit of storytelling to date (and seems a reasonable candidate for a third Prize, given the breathtaking accomplishment of it, titled My Life as a Fake.)

Meet John Sandford

Korean-American author John Son interprets the immigrant experience in a coming-of-age tale

Meet Ian Falconer

FEATURES

Picture-perfect gifts: new Photography books for the season

A long-time friendship between publishing powerhouses explored in Behind the Book

Well Read: Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez remembers his roots

Books for sports fans to cheer about

Comics: the hottest new graphic novels

FICTION

Love by Toni Morrison

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter