Word: annelies
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...sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page. FORECAST: Harcourt executive editor Ann Patty calls this 'the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,' and she's right: it's just the sort of gorgeous Dickensian doorstopper that serious readers will cozy up with as the fall winds start blowing." Author tour...
DIED. ESTHER (EPPIE) LEDERER, 83, the tabloid Freud who, as ANN LANDERS, was the world's most widely syndicated columnist; in Chicago. The elder twin sister of advice maven "Abigail Van Buren," Lederer dispensed a daily dose of common sense to 90 million readers. Homey but frank, she endorsed masturbation as a safe alternative to abstinence and in 1971 cued a flood of letters to Congress urging federal support of cancer research. Before Oprah and Sally, there was Ann--the nation's big sister...
...Vegas. One of the seminal British rock groups to emerge in the early 1960s, The Who were known for their stellar guitar playing, onstage mayhem, and for inventing the rock opera with the celebrated Tommy. The band members retired in 1982 but continued to reunite for tours. DIED. ANN LANDERS, 83, whose real name was Esther ("Eppie") Pauline Friedman Lederer; in Chicago. Landers' syndicated column delivered saucy advice on topics ranging from household problems, such as how to hang a toilet-paper roll, to sexual inquiries, such as what to do about cross-dressing husbands. It reached an estimated...
...fill it. Just three days after Oprah's announcement, the Today show said it would start a monthly club of its own. USA Today and Live with Regis and Kelly soon followed, and last week Good Morning America jumped into the literary fray, announcing its first title, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Though all tout Winfrey as the book-club queen, each media outlet has tried hard to distinguish itself from her--and from one another. --By Harriet Barovick...
...works: A segment called "Read This" will each month profile a different regional book club, whose members will then choose the next book. Last week viewers met the margarita-sipping, tiara-sporting Pulpwood Queens of Jefferson, Texas; their recommendation of Ann Packer's book shot it to No. 1 on Amazon.com