Word: nonbook
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Widow is neither a gracefully composed elegy nor a profound essay on grief. It threatens more than once to be a nonbook. But its very ordinariness gives Mrs. Caine's account its value. She has the naiveté and courage to pose the specific questions. How (and how not) to tell the children? "Get them to ask questions," she advises, and don't try to be "clinical" or "dispassionate." Instead, show your own grief, encourage them to cry. How (and how not) to write letters of condolence? "Praise is wonderfully welcome," she emphasizes, and so is "a little...
...acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters, symmetrical silhouettes of crews aloft on yardarms, looking like Chinese gymnasts, bringing in sail. The same great ships appear again and again, but no matter-in this case familiarity breeds content. For sailors this is the nonbook of the year...
...McGraw-Hill, and are obligated to repay the $766,000, which includes expenses, that the company says is owed them. In addition, each of the Irvings was fined $10,000. Presumably Irving still intends to pay for his folly by writing a book about how the threesome did their nonbook. Thirty months should be plenty of time...
...contemporary-affairs category chose The Last Whole Earth Catalog, the celebrated counterculture collection that includes a short novel as well as lists of tools, materials, lore and advice about how to live on the land, Garry Wills walked out on the proceedings. The winner, he complained, was a nonbook, and the product not of a writer but of a large group of collaborators...
Puzo seemed to be bemused by the already dizzying changes. He had welcomed a Hollywood writing stint as a vacation from the hermit existence of the novelist. His office at Paramount had a refrigerator containing "an unlimited supply of soda pop free," he recounts in an upcoming nonbook entitled, naturally, The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions. "I had an adjoining office for my secretary and a telephone with a buzzer and four lines. This was living." However, between the soda pop and the tennis and the gambling, which Puzo plunged into with relish, he soon found that being the father...