Word: ecomania
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...last October and at one point outsold the next highest best seller by 15 to 1. Translation rights have been assigned in 24 countries, and an English version by William Weaver will be published in the U.S. next October. Once again the Italian press has orchestrated what it calls Ecomania with cries of delight and outrage. One newspaper praised Foucault's Pendulum as "the novel of the '90s," while the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano denounced it for "vulgarities...
Saul Bellow offers a literary bargain: A Theft, his vivid novella, costs $6.95. -- Umberto Eco's latest tome incites Ecomania in Italy...
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