On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'My Father's Fortune: A Life'

By MICHAEL FRAYN
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Forty years after his father's death, the British novelist and playwright Michael Frayn recalls the dignified restraint that embodied their complicated relationship.

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Also in the Book Review

'Tiger, Tiger'

By MARGAUX FRAGOSO
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON

In this memoir, Margaux Fragoso remembers her relationship with the man who molested her.

'Moby-Duck'

By DONOVAN HOHN
Reviewed by ELIZABETH ROYTE

A journalist on an ocean quest for 28,800 rubber ducks lost at sea discovers where they came from, where they drifted, and why.

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'This Vacant Paradise'

By VICTORIA PATTERSON
Reviewed by KATE CHRISTENSEN

A penetrating interpretation of Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth," set in Newport Beach, Calif., during the bullish 1990s.

'Instruments of Darkness'

By IMOGEN ROBERTSON
Reviewed by JASON GOODWIN

A historical novel of murder, bedlam and an unlikely forensic duo, set in late-18th-century England.

'Pym'

By MAT JOHNSON
Reviewed by ADAM MANSBACH

In this relentlessly entertaining novel, a failed academic sails to Antarctica, seeking the mythical world of Edgar Allan Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket."

'To a Mountain in Tibet'

By COLIN THUBRON
Reviewed by ALIDA BECKER

Weighed down by grief, the author makes a pilgrimage to Mount Kailas, venerated by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and others.

'I Was a Dancer: A Memoir'

By JACQUES D'AMBOISE
Reviewed by ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Jacques d'Amboise recalls his decades with City Ballet - and Balanchine - as a tale of personal transformation.

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'Three Stages of Amazement'

By CAROL EDGARIAN
Reviewed by GABRIELLE ZEVIN

Carol Edgarian's novel, set in high-tech California after the boom, explores the intricate economies of a modern American marriage.

'How the End Begins'

By RON ROSENBAUM
Reviewed by RICHARD RHODES

With the means of its own destruction - nuclear weapons - humanity has itself to fear, Ron Rosenbaum cautions.

'Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next'

By JOHN D. KASARDA and GREG LINDSAY
Reviewed by MICHAEL POWELL

The gleam in a futurist's eye is a mega-airport in the center of every major city.

'And Furthermore'

By JUDI DENCH
Reviewed by EMMA BROCKES

Judi Dench looks back on more than half a century of acting.

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'Fortunate Sons'

By LIEL LEIBOVITZ and MATTHEW MILLER
Reviewed by DEBORAH FALLOWS

In the 19th century, a handful of Chinese came to America to study.

'Less Than Human'

By DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
Reviewed by DAVID BERREBY

A philosopher argues that dehumanization is necessary for genocide, slavery and slaughter to