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Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 784 pages $22.50 hardcover, $9.95 paperback...
Shoemaker notes that recognition brings some liabilities: "When agents hear of the $210,000 paperback-rights sale, they step up their asking prices for new manuscripts. And there is the danger that maybe the adrenaline won't flow quite as fast after our first big success." But fears like that belong to what San Francisco Novelist Herbert Gold has labeled the Age of Happy Problems. North Point has not only put itself on the map, it is helping to redefine the boundaries of U.S. publishing...
...Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) stays open until 10 p.m. every night except Sunday. It carries new titles you won't find in shopping mall book stores and used books at half price downstairs. For more mainstream new books there's the Paperback Booksmith (25 Brattle St.) It welcomes browsers until midnight every day of the week. Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is also for late-night shoppers and offers a huge selection of magazines and a mixture of popular and scholarly titles. Wordsworth (30 Brattle St.) rounds off the Square's general reading book shops...
...plan that aims at a radical simplification of the Internal Revenue Code, Ronald Reagan's tax reform seems remarkably complex. To explain it, the Treasury last week issued a paperback volume of 461 pages studded with charts and at times singularly opaque prose. Sample: "A customer of a contractor making progress payments or advance payments would be treated as self- constructing the property under construction by the contractor to the extent of such payments...
...same story, as explored last week in a Virginia City courtroom, seemed to belong not in a paperback novel at all but in a casebook of parental pathology. As the younger of the so-called mountain men went on trial in the abduction and wounding of Swenson and the killing of Alan Goldstein, neither of the accused--Dan Nichols, 20, and Don Nichols, 54--disputed the facts. Instead, both testified to an almost grotesque relationship in which the son had been manipulated into a state of worshipful dependency on a father who despised and defied conventional society. Dan's foster...