Word: book-of-the-month
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...Like the legendary salamander who lives in flame, he has survived the fires of illegitimacy and Mussolini's Fascism with his lizard's skin unscathed. The Salamander does for West's story what the wolf does for the tale of Red Riding Hood. As a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Salamander will be widely sold, but it reads like a mere shadow between West's conception and the inevitable movie. It is hard not to conclude that somewhere film technicians are already at work outfitting a chameleon with an asbestos costume. Paul Gray
Despite selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club and advance compliments from Lelchuk's friend Philip Roth, American Mischief is not much more than another exploitive, topical novel. Lelchuk romps through the confusions and contradictions of today's beleaguered values-marriage, democracy, individualism-like a gratuitous looter in a cultural disaster area...
Nonetheless, The Descent of Woman has already achieved a distinction of sorts: it has replaced another largely fictional work-Clifford Irving's discredited biography of Howard Hughes -as the Book-of-the-Month Club's June selection...
...hardly dried on Kate Millett's paperback contract and Book-of-the-Month Club sale of Sexual Politics, when U.S. publishers began pressing pens into the hands of feminist radicals, hoping for a rich marriage of commerce and cultural revolution. Scores of nonfiction titles have already resulted, with scores more to come. Predictably, most of these creations were hotly and hastily done by Women's righters who are not, alas, women writers. Hardly any can compare to the majestic range and mastery of the few earlier classics on the subject, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second...
...author knows too that the most grueling suspense is generated not by mystery but by a long, slow wait for the inevitable. Partly for this reason, he seems about to make the kind of killing (Book-of-the-Month Club, record paperback advance, vast movie contract, etc.) that the Jackal hoped for from his far grimmer enterprise...