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Edith Wharton is enjoying a hot season, 56 years after her death, that would be the envy of many a living novelist. Buoyed by Martin Scorsese's film, The Age of Innocence is the No. 1 paperback best seller. Sales of other Wharton titles have doubled, and three have been snapped up for possible films. As if | Wharton didn't write enough, her last, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, has been completed (and, alas, flattened and sentimentalized) by scholar Marion Mainwaring (Viking; $22). It too has been optioned by Hollywood...
Some educators believe teenagers' reading these lurid thrillers, as opposed to playing Nintendo or watching Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, is a good thing. Viviane Lampach, a librarian at a Bronx high school in New York City, notes that her young patrons check out new paperback novels in this genre and never return them: "You hope to wean them from horror to something deeper and more meaningful." Roderick McGillis, a professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of a book on children's literature, takes a darker view: "What disturbs me is that we're developing...
...good at all levels that the consultants have formed their own professional body, the National Association of Sentencing Advocates, with 100 member firms so far. Practitioners, often criminologists or social workers, have found themselves increasingly asked to decipher the compendium of federal sentencing guidelines, which has grown from paperback size to the dimensions of a metropolitan phone book over the past five years...
...Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Published in 1977, this biography received a number of positive notices. The New York Times Book Review predicted that Oates' book "is very probably going to replace Thomas' book as the standard one-volume life of Lincoln," which, abetted by a paperback reprint the following year, is essentially what happened. The "Thomas" the Times reviewer cited was Benjamin P. Thomas, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Biography...
These multiple perspectives inform Cambridge, his fourth and best selling novel so far, recently reissued in paperback. A historical novel set in the early 19th century, the book narrates the journey of the Englishwoman Emily Cartwright to an unnamed Caribbean is land to look after affairs on her father's plantation estate. Part of the book is told from her point of view, part from that of an educated, African-born Christian slave named Cambridge...