cover image Family Portraits

Family Portraits

. Penguin Books, $9.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-14-014357-7

Among the writers represented are Margaret Atwood, who saucily recalls ``great aunts,'' Alfred Kazin, who expounds on Brooklyn Jewish life, and Elizabeth Spencer, who beautifully evokes the South. ``The prevailing mood is one of regret,'' said PW. ``All are worth reading as indications of how sweetly imagination works with memory to evoke other times, other places.'' Photos. (May)