Article: Paperbacks / Fiction; No shortage of fascinating fiction in '97 paperbacks.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)

If you consider it a luxury to kick back and absorb a book of fiction, perhaps you should slow down and reconsider the genre with one of these paperback picks.

If you were too thrifty to chuck over $30 for the hardcover of the 1,079-page "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, consider its $14.95 paperback version. If you can't commit to that big a book, don't worry: This list includes shorter (but still scintillating) fiction.

- "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson (Noonday Press, $11, 224 pages). Two sisters struggle toward adulthood facing the price of loss and survival and permanence.

- "Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast" by Bill ...

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