2: Novelist WILTON BARNHARDT. He's getting alot of press and praise for his new novel, "Gospel," (St. Martin's Press) an 800-page saga about a present-day search for a lost gospel. It's been described as an "intellectual detective novel. . . written on the grand scale." (Library Journal). And, author Tony Hillerman writes of the book, "every ten years comes a novel so delightful, so exciting, that you want to grab perfect strangers and tell 'em about it." BARNHARDT's first novel was "Emma Who Saved My Life."
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