Word: putnam
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PUBLISHER: PUTNAM; 254 PAGES...
MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam; $14.95). In Mama's boardinghouse, little Mirette is surrounded by famous acrobats. None is more attractive than M. Bellini, a tightrope walker who has suddenly lost his courage. Mirette can restore it, but only if she accompanies him on his walk over the rooftops of Paris. Wistful watercolors evoke turn-of-the-century France, and the narrative is as taut as the high wire itself...
RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY IS TALKED about primarily as a problem for its victims. But Bebe Moore Campbell knows better. Her remarkable first novel, YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE (Putnam; $22.95), begins with a fictionalized account of the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 for speaking to a white woman in a rural Mississippi town. As in real life, the murderer is acquitted by an all-white jury, but over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil...
DeWolfe, East Adams, Leverett Towers, Mather, Dunster:Putnam Apartments, 2 Mt. Auburn...
...Putnam likened introducing someone of West'sstature to "introducing someone named MartinLuther around the year...