cover image Peru

Peru

Gordon Lish. Scribner Book Company, $8.95 (222pp) ISBN 978-0-684-18764-8

The author of Dear Mr. Capote and What I Know So Far, Lish again delves into a psychotic mindthe 50ish narrator of this tale may or may not have committed a murder at the age of six. ""This is a haunting book, provoking fresh perceptions about language, memory and power,'' PW wrote. (October)