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...stories of In the Beginning (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $18.95) are far older than Grimm's. Each concerns the creation of the world, and Virginia Hamilton gives every culture equal time and space. The Hurons speak of a woman who started things by falling from a torn place in the sky. The first man, say the Eskimos, hatched from a pea pod. The ancient Chinese venerated a giant who burst from a vast egg. Barry Moser's illuminations treat these legends with dignity and delicacy, and go on to show dozens of other prime movers, including a feathered serpent, an octopus...
...acquisition followed a long, hard battle and came in the wake of last year's attempt to take over another U.S. publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. William Jovanovich restructured the company to thwart Maxwell's anticipated $2 billion bid. "Jovanovich killed the company. He's a dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where...
...LETTERS OF T.S. ELIOT 1898-1922 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $29.95). At last! The poet's centenary marks the publication of the first volume of his correspondence...
...continuing debate. And this discussion is about to intensify nearly everywhere, thanks to the occasion provided by Eliot's centenary. For openers, a long awaited addition to the Eliot canon will be published next week on his 100th birthday: The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1898-1922 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 736 pages; $29.95), the first of four volumes of Eliot's correspondence, edited by his second wife Valerie. Presses on both sides of the Atlantic are churning out new issues of Eliot's writing. The British Council has mounted an exhibition illustrating Eliot's life and work that will eventually travel...
Holleran's collection of essays and Paul Monette's memoir of his dying lover, Borrowed Time (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 342 pages; $18.95), are reports from the combat zone. They are far more personalized than Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On (1987), a survey of the medical, political and social impact of AIDS. Holleran and Monette stand waist-deep in the wreckage of homosexual society, particularly that mayfly culture that soared during the '70s and plunged abruptly when the virus struck hard at the beginning...