Boone

Brooks Hansen. Anchor Books, $9.5 (394pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41977-2

Twenty-three narrative voices, each ``distinctive and accurate in tone and idiom,'' kaleidoscopically limn the intense life of Eton Arthur Boone, a fictional Greenwich village comic and cult figure. ``A tour de force,'' said PW. ``Readers will be mesmerized by this portrait of a man who reflects both the pop culture of the '60s and '70s and the angst of an artistic genius.'' (Nov.)

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