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Snow Falling on Cedars (Harcourt Brace; 345 pages; $21.95), a beautifully assured and full-bodied story, centers on a trial: when the bloody corpse of Carl Heine, a large, well-meaning salmon fisherman, is pulled out of the water one day, suspicion immediately falls on Heine's old friend and recent adversary, Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese colleague who has been bidding for some of Heine's property. As Miyomoto sits in the snowbound courtroom, he is watched by his elegant wife Hatsue; she, in turn, is watched by Ishmael Chambers, a young reporter who has been in love with...
Charleston, South Carolina, has always been a city of two tales -- one white, the other black, running parallel, sometimes clashing but seldom touching. That is one reason why Ruthie Bolton's Gal: A True Life (Harcourt Brace; 275 pages; $19.95) is such a remarkable book, for it is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two writers -- one black and unpublished, the other white and well established. Gal is also remarkable as that one-in-a-million unsolicited manuscript that actually gets published. But most impressive is the book itself...
Richard A. Smith' 46--a member of theCorporation as well as CEO and board member ofGeneral Cinema Companies, Inc.--also serves asthe chair of Harcourt General, Inc. and NeimanMarcus Co. He says he learned a lot from sittingon boards of for-profit companies...
...Hanover, New Hampshire. Arriving penniless as refugees in New York in 1941, Wolff and her husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto...
...Jump, by Ellen Stoll Walsh (Harcourt Brace; $13.95). A froggy first book for bouncing preschoolers, the title pretty much sums up the plot, until an unusually balletic frog (blue with spots, to distinguish her from ordinary green-with-spots plodders) teaches her pondmates to dance. Read me the frog book, Daddy...