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...publisher's dream. The Education of Little Tree, a sensitive memoir of Carter's Native American childhood, was published in hard-cover in 1976 to little fanfare. Released in softcover by the University of New Mexico Press this year, the book now tops the New York Times paperback best-seller list, with 600,000 copies in print...
...Toujours Provence (Knopf; $20), his second collection of essays, is climbing the best- seller lists. The success story began two years ago with the British publication of A Year in Provence. The hardback edition at first received a mild, pleasant response, but never underestimate favorable word of mouth. In paperback the book was No. 1 on the charts for 60 weeks, and Mayle's plumber, mason and the rest of the artisans became popular heroes. In the U.S. the paperback has just appeared, and the publisher is rushing extra printings...
Wild church mice could not drag further clues from this reviewer. Those who care about the answer may want to wait for the movie, which should be at your local plex not long after the paperback edition hits the discount shelves...
...argued that Sinatra was trying to prevent her from publishing freely; Sinatra's lawyers finally dropped the suit. The book, which detailed Sinatra's fabled womanizing, his alleged Mob connections and two suicide attempts, received respectful reviews. More than 3 million copies have been printed in hard-cover and paperback...
...turned it into a minor movie. Its characters are too small and twisted for sympathy; its pace is too studied, a little too in awe of its artfulness, to pack a wallop. It needs to move, but doesn't, at the pace a bus-station reader would devour a paperback thriller...