Word: paperback
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Castro's passion for explaining health care in clear, illuminating language recently led her to write a book on the subject -- The American Way of Health: How Medicine Is Changing and What It Means to You, published in May in both hardcover and paperback by Little, Brown. She spent six months crisscrossing the country -- from Walnut Creek, California, to Leesburg, Virginia -- interviewing patients, nurses, insurance executives, Senators -- just about anyone with a voice or a stake in the decisions that Washington soon hopes to make. She talked to AIDS patients at San Francisco General and stood at the elbow...
...since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. Published in hard cover a year ago, it immediately became a surprise best seller. The paperback edition (Vintage; $10) is now firmly entrenched on the best-seller list. Kaysen has received hundreds of letters from readers who have also been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and on her just completed tour of 16 cities to promote the paperback, dozens of people whispered their own stories of mental illness to her. To many...
...private, quiet conversation with deputies, Simpson complained about his jail-cell conditions and asked not to be returned. "I'll do anything to stay out of that cell," he said. The tete-a-tete was picked up by a lurking microphone and beamed worldwide. Prefer your scandal in paperback? Three volumes are in the works...
...Vintage Paperback...
...McGahern's Collected Stories, released in paperback in March, speak to the difference between an abstract greatness and what we like. When Tipperary, a character in the story "Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass," asks the narrator if he thinks Shakespeare was all that he was bumped up to be, the narrator answers that people say so, and it is people who do all the bumping up or bumping down. "Who is people?" asks Tipperary. "People is people," says the narrator,"...they might even be ourselves...