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...GREEK TREASURE by IRVING STONE 479 pages. Doubleday...
...Laura Z. Hobson's new novel, Consenting Adult (Doubleday; $7.95), the mother of a gay teen-ager first sends him to a psychiatrist, who fails to "cure" him. After a cycle of deep shock, self-reproach, bitter arguments and forced reconciliations, she finally comes to accept her son's homosexuality and even sends him a congratulatory telegram when he comes...
Talese plans to publish further installments in Esquire and perhaps other magazines coming months. "I make my own deadlines," he says. Indeed he does. Until his editors at Doubleday read this month's Esquire piece, they will not have seen a word from Talese. Doubleday has put up $ 1.2 million, half of which he has already collected, for the sex opus plus a future book...
...VIRGINIA SPENCER CARR 600 pages. Doubleday...
...Gargoyle Conspiracy by Marvin Albert (Doubleday; $7.95) assumes, perhaps wrongly, that the expunging of any American Secretary of State would be a staggering blow to Western civilization. The Palestinians who plan this misdeed lay their trap, rather self-indulgently, in the South of France. They are foiled, as they seem to be regularly in thrillers and less often in real life. The details are not especially interesting, but one bit of irony is worth mentioning. A terrorist, Selim, is found dead. Did he commit suicide to avoid capture? Certainly not, his English adversary concludes; no terror ist has ever been...