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Word: agentless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor miracle that began when Viking bought an agentless, over-the-transom novel called Ordinary People did not stop there. Sales to Redbook, Ballantine Paperbacks, Reader's Digest Condensed Books and the Book-of-the-Month Club soon followed. Robert Redford's company has just bought the film rights. Judith Guest still does not have an agent, but with any luck she stands to collect something like half a million dollars. Will the resulting cash and carrying-on spoil things in the big, elm-shrouded house in the Minneapolis suburb where the author lives with her husband, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suburban Furies | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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