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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EVENTS

'' Ironweed '' by William Kennedy is published.

'' Salvage For The Saint '' by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris creation '' The Saint '' that started in 1928 . An unsuccessful attempt at restarting the series would occur in 1997 .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Anubis Gates '' - Tim Powers

'' Changes (Danielle Steel Novel) '' - Danielle Steel

'' Christine '' - Stephen King

'' Cold Heaven '' - Anita Brian Moore

'' The Colour Of Magic '' - Terry Pratchett

'' The Dark Green Tunnel '' - Allan W. Eckert

'' Hollywood Wives '' - Jackie Collins

'' Icebreaker '' - John Gardner

'' Ironweed '' - William Kennedy

'' The Last Warrior Queen '' - Mary Mackey

'' Life And Times Of Michael K '' - J. M. Coetzee

'' The Little Drummer Girl '' - John Le Carré

'' The Lonesome Gods '' - Louis L'Amour

'' The Loser '' - Thomas Bernhard

'' The Mists Of Avalon '' - Marion Zimmer Bradley

'''' - Susan Oliver

'' On Wings Of Eagles '' - Ken Follett

'' Pet Sematary '' - Stephen King

'' Phantoms '' - Dean R. Koontz

'' The Piano Teacher '' - Elfriede Jelinek

'' Poland '' - James A. Michener

'' Resistance And Persecution In Passau From 1933 To 1939 '' - Anna Rosmus

'' The Robots Of Dawn '' - Isaac Asimov

'' Scandal '' - A. N. Wilson

'' Shame '' - Salman Rushdie

'' A Time For Judas '' - Morley Callaghan

'''' - Stephen R. Donaldson

'' The Widening Gyre '' - Robert B. Parker

'' Winter's Tale '' - Mark Helprin

'' Worstward Ho '' - Samuel Beckett

NEW DRAMA

Larry Shue - ''The Foreigner''

Neil Simon - '' Brighton Beach Memoirs ''

BIRTHS

DEATHS

February 25 - Tennessee Williams , playwright

March 3 - Hergé , Belgian Comics creator

AWARDS

-''Life and Times of Michael K''

See 1983 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Startide Rising''

, ''Dicey's Song''

, ''Les égarés''

, ''Cherokee''

, ''La route bleue''

, '' 'Night, Mother ''

- ''The Color Purple''

- ''Selected Poems''

, ''Flying to Nowhere''