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Unspeakable changes in personality occur almost overnight among wives soon after they move to Stepford. With mingled horror and disbelief, Joanna, the heroine of this minor movie in hardback form, questions the ten-year-old son of a woman friend who has been thus mysteriously afflicted...
...reader wonders, as he pages with almost guilty pleasure through this grand, swaying history of the great North Atlantic steamships: can the $15 hardback leviathan survive in an age that buys its books from newsstands, reads them in an hour, and discards them like banana peels? The Sway of the Grand Saloon is huge, solid, stately, absurdly lavish, its noble dust jacket encrusted with gilt. Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun. Its paper, far from being recycled, might be made by the supplier of Cunard table linen...
...latter subject one can hardly deny Uris his soapbox. He has always been a crude novelist. Yet Exodus is the sixth biggest bestselling novel of the century,* and QB VII, after wintering comfortably atop all the charts, is now second only to Exodus in the author's hardback sales...
...supreme in the small-furry-animal-in-spats market. Charlotte's Web (1952), which has just been released again on Pathways of Sound records with White himself reading aloud, is a masterpiece about love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon...
...liberal Catholic publishing house of Herder and Herder, on the other hand, has sold some 350,000 hardback English-language copies of the Dutch Catechism...