Article: For October, New releases from auster to Vonnegut.(Daily Break)

By John McMurtrie

San Francisco Chronicle

A few weeks ago we promised a second roundup of fall titles. Make that three, with the next in November. The bounty is just too great.

Look what's in store this month: works by A.S. Byatt. Richard Powers. Kurt Vonnegut. John Irving. Michael Chabon. Mary Gordon. Works about Robert Altman. Thelonius Monk. And more.

OCTOBER FICTION

"Angel Time: Songs of the Seraphim," by Anne Rice (Knopf). The dead come back to life. Again.

"The Children's Book," by A.S. Byatt (Knopf). This epic tale by the author of "Possession" revolves around three families in Victorian England.

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