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...since the desperate '30s and wartime '40s brought forth Anthony Adverse, Gone With the Wind and Forever Amber have U.S. readers attempted collective escape into the past on such a scale. In 1976 U.S. softcover publishers issued more than 150 historical novels, many of them as paperback originals, and sold better than 40 million copies -about two books a second. In 1977 sales are expected to improve...
Going into the last week, sales were expected to be up 3% to 5% at Boston's Paperback Booksmith (58 stores); after the final surge, the rise was projected at 8%. Sears in Atlanta reported sharp increases during the last three days, allowing modest gains over last year. Ralph Kaplan, president of Boston's Kappy's Liquors, was ecstatic: "We had a superweek. I can't believe it." At Rike's in Dayton, an official said: "We expected a last-minute flurry. In the last two or three days an overwhelming increase came...
Subtitled The Sexo-Political Diary of Two Adolescents, the paperback has been acclaimed-even by reviewers who disliked its lurid sex-for its fascinating insights into the political and social attitudes of Italy's far-left youth. Written by Lidia Ravera, 25, a journalist for a counterculture magazine called Muzak, and Marco Lombardo-Radice, 27, a psychologist who specializes in working with teenagers, Winged Pigs shows that today's students are rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk...
...refuses to come out. The battle of frosty New England worlds is on. Despite the pleas of her niece, old friends and even a Mexican priest who happens around, Sally settles down for a long standoff, comforted by two resources: apples in the attic and a torn old paperback...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...