Cork Bantam Books armed robbers burst through the

armed robbers burst through the door

But when her father leaves her a cryptic message in his last speech

Nick begins to learn his grandfather's buried secrets and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present

Karl is forced to confront his deepest fear - that he will turn out to be like his father

Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston

Cork Bantam Books armed robbers burst through the"My name is Lily Campendonc. A long time ago I used to live in Lisbon. . . ." So begins Cork, in which a pragmatic young British widow, proprietor of a cork processing factory, embarks on an affair with her husband's former office manager, Her lover will meet only once a year, and insists that their encounters be pseudonymous masquerades. For him, this role playing is essential: ''You see, because I am nothing, I can imagine anything. . . . If I were