Word: hyperion
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...Case for Marriage by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher (Doubleday) emphasizes the positive, arguing that even rocky marriages nourish children emotionally and practically. The most controversial book, comes from Judith Wallerstein, 78, a therapist and retired lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. In The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce (Hyperion) she argues that the harm caused by divorce is graver and longer lasting than we suspected. Her work raises a question that some folks felt was settled back in the days of Love, American Style: Should parents stay together for the kids...
During the summer, Brooke M. Ellison '00, one of the first quadriplegic students to graduate from the College, signed a contract with Hyperion Books for publication of her autobiography, which an editor said she has already begun to write...
...want it to be inspirational, kind of like a Tuesdays with Morrie thing," said Jennifer Lang, Ellison's acquiring editor at Hyperion Books, referring to Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir. The book tells the story of a young man's meetings with his dying former college professor...
More than an inspirational story, Hyperion also sees in Ellison's story a portrait of family courage and a tremendous mother-daughter relationship, Lang said...
Vengeance is sweet, but Experience (Hyperion; 406 pages; $23.95), Amis' riveting memoir of his troubled past, wastes little space settling old scores. "Why should I tell the story of my life?" he asks rhetorically at the outset, and answers immediately, "I do it because my father is dead now, and I always knew I would have to commemorate him. He was a writer and I am a writer; it feels like a duty to describe our case--a literary curiosity which is also just another instance of father...