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...more extravagant admirers, who tend to be women, consider Erica Jong a female Roth, Vonnegut and Mailer combined. Her first novel, Fear of Flying, had a brisk hardback sale after it was published late in 1973 and since its appearance in paperback last November, a rapid rise to No. 1 on the bestseller charts. At Houston's Rice University it is used in an English course and at Radcliffe, the Atlanta Y.W.C.A. Women's Center and elsewhere as the subject of discussion in consciousness-raising groups. It is also discussed in therapy, since psychiatrists and psychologists have found...
RELIGION AND SEXISM, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Simon and Schuster; 356 pages; $3.95 paperback, $9.95 hardback). Those who seek the roots of sexism in Judaism and Christianity can find plenty of them in this collection of essays edited by Theologian Ruether, a Roman Catholic and an outspoken feminist. Eleven scholars-ten women and one man-investigate various, mostly pejorative images of women in Old and New Testaments, in canon law, in the thought of the Church Fathers, medieval scholastics, Protestant Reformers and even such modern theologians as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. In this collection, at least, Tillich...
...Passover Haggadah is a handsome book, either in the personal-size paperback ($3, from the Central Conference of American Rabbis) or the coffee-table hardback (Grossman; $17.50). A "family package" -ten paperbacks and the hardback for $37.50-has been selling briskly. The book's only drawback for some potential users may be its refusal to coddle its audience. While everything in Hebrew also appears in English, none of the Hebrew is transliterated for those who might like to speak the Hebrew words but cannot read the characters. Moreover, the profusion of optional readings and songs may confuse those...
...Book-of-the-Month Club selection for June. Solzhenitsyn has asked that the book be priced as cheaply as possible so that a maximum number of people may read it. As a result, Harper & Row will issue simultaneously a paperback at $1.95 and a limited edition of hardback copies of the 606-page illustrated book at $12.50. The author's royalties and some of the publisher's revenue are being plowed back into advertising and distribution. Presently, Harper & Row's entire sales staff of 170 is out drumming up more orders from bookstores, schools and colleges. Similar...
...WYETH: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals edited by Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen Jr. 335 pages. Crown. $29.95. More than a dozen of N.C. Wyeth-illustrated Scribner's Classics (The Yearling, Westward Ho, The Black Arrow, The Deerslayer, etc.) are still in print in hardback from $6 to $10. This year Scribner's is offering fancy paperback editions, at $3.95, all with original color, of Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur...