Word: farrar
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Nancy Ekholm Burkert's luminous accompaniments to the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and Edward Lear are classics of the genre. The French legend of Valentine & Orson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95) further enhances her reputation. Twins are separated at birth; one is raised by a king in a court, the other by a bear in a forest. The boys meet as antagonists, but after a series of picaresque adventures, become reunited and rewarded. This too is staged as a drama, enacted by rhyming players who evoke the best of Ingmar Bergman, Walt Disney and the artist-adapter herself...
After 17 years as director of the Harvard University Press, Arthur J. Rosenthal announced yesterday that he will leave Harvard in May to become publisher of the Hill and Wang division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
Saying that he was enticed by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to join the leading New York independent trade publisher nearly a month ago, Rosenthal looks forward to "making Hill and Wang a force again...a challenge that will keep me young for many years to come...
...leaving Harvard, Rosenthal will also becomevice-president and member of the board ofdirectors of Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world-class author in splendid form...