Word: hardbound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that there isn't a lot of extra fright that goes with having a best-selling novel behind me." Besides, East of the Mountains was started before Snow Falling on Cedars had fallen onto nearly every bedside table. Yet the fact remains that bookstores are filled with 500,000 hardbound copies of a novel whose main virtue is its uneventful drift...
...novella is the orphan of contemporary fiction. Too lengthy for modern magazines and too short for penny-pinching publishers, this middle-distance literary form rarely gets hardbound as a single offering. Now the Pulitzer-prizewinning author Richard Ford has published three novellas in one volume...
...Paying $400 for books for four classes is ridiculous," said David J. Kressel '99. "The sourcebooks are close to $50, even though they've got cheap plastic bindings and aren't hardbound...
...long as it emphasizes the sweep of history, this encyclopedia has dignity and flair. When it tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough...