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SIGNS AND WONDERS by Françoise Mallet-Joris. 408 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Françoise Mallet-Joris writes in the tradition of Émile Zola. Her plots are complex and thickly populated, and her characters move up and down through the floors of French society like a gilt-and-glass Parisian elevator-and, often, at about the same speed...
...mystic way, Cocteau, for all of his histrionics and acrobatics, always managed to regain a safe perch. He was somehow able to have his cakewalking, eat his opium, and yet wind up a middle-class immortal, a member of that superrespectable college of venerables, the Académie Française...
TREBLINKA by Jean-François Steiner. 415 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...wanted to reach more people so we needed a hit song. We took "My Best Friend," which was a groovy tune to start off with, and commercialized it. It made number one in San Fran...