Word: opal
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Four days after Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 came under scrutiny for possible plagiarism in her novel "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," her publisher yesterday asked stores across the country to pull the book from their shelves...
...statement yesterday, Little, Brown—the publisher that reportedly gave Viswanthan a two-book, $500,000 contract—asked stores to send back any unsold copies of "Opal Mehta." The move came only a day after Michael Pietsch ’78, senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown, told The New York Times that the publishing house would not withdraw current editions of the novel from bookshelves...
Viswanathan also said Monday that she will revise her book to take out all of the "inappropriate similarities" between "Opal Mehta" and McCafferty’s novels...
...Harvard Book Store last night, Ben Newcomer, a supervisor, said that he had not yet received any request from Little, Brown to withdraw and return the store’s copies of "Opal Mehta...
...small stack of "Opal Mehta" copies continued to be displayed on a table at the front of the store...