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...attended a school like Lippington (formal name: the Convent of the Five Wounds) with handicaps like Nanda's: she was the daughter of a classics master who had just converted to Roman Catholicism. Her autobiographical Frost in May, first published in 1933, has just appeared here in paperback, along with three sequels. As Elizabeth Bowen writes in the introduction, it is one of the best school novels ever written...
...epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...
...Sales eventually hit nearly 2 million copies. But Dune was only the beginning of a long-running drama, the first part of which is now being filmed in North Africa. In 1969 Herbert published Dune Messiah, which has since sold more than 2.2 million copies in hard-cover and paperback. Seven years later came Children of Dune, which has also topped the 2 mil lion mark. Now Herbert has turned the trilogy into a tetralogy with God Emperor of Dune, a fourth visit to distant Arrakis that is every bit as fascinating as the other three-and every...
...tired of being raped," complains I Marisa after twelve violations in 600 pages. "Don't I count as a person?" Indeed she does. Marisa's adventure, Wicked Loving Lies, has sold 3 million copies, and her fellow rapees, the heroines of paperback romances, were responsible for sales upwards of $100 million in 1980 -representing over one-fourth of mass-market softcover volumes. This year is expected to be even bigger. As gothics and antebellum adventures fade, the "contemporaries," as the trade labels them, are becoming the ardor of the day. Says Dell Vice President Ross Claiborne...
...Karen Solem, editor in chief of Silhouette Romances. "They buy one line because they know they won't find something they don't want to see." Adds Bill Edwards, vice president of the 530-store B. Dalton Booksellers chain, where romances account for 30% of mass-market paperback sales: "The women know what days their new lines arrive here. They buy four or six novels at a whack, every month." The market is so febrile that Avon has published the first homosexual romance, Gaywick; Dell has done a black contemporary, and Jove plans a "Second Chance at Love...