Word: novels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Nicol Williamson plays a heartsick member of the English aristocracy yearning for the love of a brazen movie usherette (Anna Karina) in this skillful adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Dustin Hoffman and Newcomer Jon Voight are the real points of interest in John Schlesinger's somewhat slick rendering of James Leo Herlihy's novel of love and loneliness in New York City...
...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
Scorching Novel. Out less than a month, the book has already sold more than 20,000 copies (at $5.95 apiece) and has gone into a third printing, thanks mainly to an outrageous promotion campaign featuring photographs of the heroine's conquests, each posed for by one of the authors. ("Meet Melvin Corby" reads the blurb next to Aronson's picture, "faithful, frustrated, he canceled his men's magazines when Naked Came the Stranger.") Paperback rights have been sold to Dell for a $37,500 minimum (escalating to a possible $127,500 depending on hard-cover sales...
Though reviews have been generally deserving, one that particularly delighted the perpetrators appeared in Newsday's rival Long Island Press. Wrote Columnist Walter Kaner: "Penelope Ashe's scorching novel makes Portnoy's Complaint and Valley of the Dolls read like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'" McGrady still insists that the stunt was an exercise in gullibility, not profiteering. But with any luck, success may yet spoil his two dozen Penelope Ashes. In his latest memo, he has urged his fellow novelists "to be thinking about a sequel. One suggested title is Son of the Naked Stranger. Personally...