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UPDATED 06/24/1991 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 06/24/1991 at 01:00 AM EDT

>DAVE BARRY TURNS 40 BABY BOOMER LAUREATE AND SYNDICATED wit Dave Barry faces middle age fearing he and his peers haven't "acquired the wisdom and maturity needed to run the world, or even necessarily power tools." (Fawcett)

WILDLIFE

A collapse of intimacy propels Richard Ford's discordant fourth novel about a Montana family—teenage narrator Joe and his parents—pursuing an emotionally threadbare life. (Vintage)

YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND Does she nag? Is he uncommunicative? Maybe, suggests linguist Deborah Tannen in her engaging study of gender, language and relationships, you are not even speaking the same dialect. (Ballantine)

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