Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obviously, Ethel, Lionel and John were wrong. The epic drama they sought was there all the time, too close and too painful for acknowledgment. Peters' work underlines the irony: only a biographer could relate this family saga. The playwright who attempted to describe the turrets, basements and closets in the House of Barrymore would never be believed...
HarperCollins gave Burrough his million partly to reward him for Barbarians at the Gate. Burrough and fellow Journal reporter John Helyar shared a $150,000 advance for that vivid saga of the $25 billion RJR-Nabisco takeover war. They wrote the 528-page book in just seven months. An instant hit, Barbarians has sold more than 300,000 copies so far and has been a fixture on best-seller lists for 38 weeks...
...than 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 18 languages. The Plains of Passage, Auel's first book since 1985, has a 1.4 million-copy advance sale. Crown Publishers has reportedly paid Auel about $25 million for Plains and two yet-to-be-written volumes completing the saga...
...SINKER by Len Deighton (HarperCollins; $21.95). The master plotter winds up his six-volume espionage saga about British agent Bernard Samson and his spying wife Fiona, whose defection to East Germany is finally explained...
Dawn, who denies the charges, is one of the unlucky people who have found themselves hounded by an angry spouse in a state where old-fashioned sex statutes are still on the books. In a quirky twist to the contemporary no- fault-divorce saga, venerable adultery laws are occasionally being invoked by quarreling marital partners, sometimes for vindictive purposes and sometimes to gain leverage in lengthy settlement negotiations. In the weeks after Dawn's arrest, two other Connecticut women and one man were also charged with adultery. They face the same possible misdemeanor punishment: up to a year in jail...