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...with neither publication nor explanation. The version that begins running this week in Druzhba Narodov, a publication of the Soviet Writers Union, is 600 pages long and will appear in the magazine's April, May and June issues. Rybakov expects that a Soviet publishing house will eventually produce a hardback edition...
Legend will someday have it that Author Elmore Leonard became an overnight success with his 23rd novel. Such is not quite the case. True, Glitz (1985) rocketed toward the top of hardback best-seller lists, a feat that earlier Leonard books had not accomplished. Credit for this commercial breakthrough has been given to the huge promotional campaign waged on behalf of Glitz by its publisher. All those ads certainly did not hurt. But Leonard's triumph may have a somewhat less expensive explanation: the devoted readers who enjoyed and passed along the writer's early westerns (Hombre) and those...
...keep such a book on the reading list for economic reasons, he added. "A good hardback would cost $35 and that would mean the rich students could go off and buy it, but the others would scramble for the reserve copies...
...1920s. But for Helen Hooven Santmyer, 88, the 1982 publication by Ohio State University Press of her 1,344-page opus, . . . And the Ladies of the Club, was only the first chapter in a success story. Last week G.P. Putnam's Sons announced plans to reprint 50,000 hardback copies of her novel by August, and the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it as a main selection. Meanwhile Santmyer, who has spent the past few years in and out of a nursing home in her native Xenia, Ohio, is happy to rest a little on her laurels...
...with a Pym manuscript. But Larkin and Cecil, literary mandarins though they were, turned out to have their fingers on the public pulse. Before she died, at 66, more than two years ago, Barbara Pym had again become fashionable. Today all ten of her novels are selling well in hardback and paper editions, especially...