Sunday Books: coverage for October 17, 2010

With this obstinate volume, the Nobel laureate largely wastes a trip back to the continent that has given him some of his richest material.

The author’s fiction springs from values, lessons, aspirations and traditions instilled over generations

A collection of the writer’s stories on athletes, their games and the minor characters around them.

Another vampires-and-werewolves novel for the young adult set, but with a literary difference.

The teens in this collection— penned by the actor — are alienated and unsure of themselves. Unless you’re a Franco fan, check out ‘Catcher in the Rye’ or ‘The Outsiders’ instead.

History of both species are linked, hand in paw.

Plus ‘At Home With André and Simone Weil’ by Sylvie Weil; ‘Framing Innocence’ by Lynn Powell.

Playwright Alan Bennett laments his decent, respectable background in the memoir “A Life Like Other People’s” before realizing that all families have secrets —including his own.

Three women’s lives intersect as bad behavior, safe choices and gritty reality swirl together through their years.