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"It comforts people," says a Knopf editor, William Koshland. "It appeals to the bereaved. Tens of copies are sold when someone dies." A distant relative of the author once speculated that the book is bought by young men for the purpose of "seducing women" by quoting it. Seventeen magazine, noting...
"Hatred is too much for me," confesses the disturbed American woman who is the heroine of this novel, "I can't face it." She means hatred for her ex-husband, a middle-aged philosopher who is a venerable pooh-bear to everyone else in the world but a dragon...
"You begin with the fact that everything is awful. That any two people are mismatched, that nothing will work," says Tom Waltz, Stanley's son, who has been invited to escape the limitations of his fate at Polycarp, an educational institution in Slow Rapids, Ind., where the Waltz grass...
Von Ryan's Express, drawn from David Westheimer's World War II escape novel, is the kind of story that goes before the cameras almost as soon as it comes off the presses, possibly because the book reads like a scenario. Yet it makes a breakthrough of sorts...
1957: McCarthy dies of hepatitis.