Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rallying cry for sexual liberation, making its striking young author an international star along the way, Greer, now 60, is out there being herself again: provocative, brilliantly engaging and maddeningly contradictory. She has a new book out this month, The Whole Woman (Knopf; 384 pages; $25)--already a best seller in the U.K. and her native Australia--and a punchy new slogan, "It's time to get angry again." Feminism has stalled, Greer argues convincingly if muddily, pointing out that the equality women have fought for is not the same as liberation and hammering away at the advance of eating...
...accomplished French author of the 1985 best seller The City of Joy recapitulates in honeyed prose more than a dozen stories he covered in his long career in journalism. He interviews the bullfighter El Cordobes and retraces Mahatma Gandhi's last moments. Much of the narrative runs to the cloyingly inspirational, and a good deal of it challenges credulity. For example, Caryl Chessman, awaiting execution at San Quentin, is portrayed as an intellectual who speaks in finely wrought sentences as he discourses about crime prevention, citing Albert Camus ("What a writer!"). Oh, what a mess...
...Marty (Liev Schreiber), is forced to spend most of his time away from the family at work. As always, the absence of the husband conveniently opens the door for the infidelity of the wife, a pattern that plays out to perfection when Pearl becomes involved with an enigmatic blouse-seller named Walker (Viggo Mortensen), a drifter who epitomizes the care-free existence of that generation. Pearl's regression from upright mother and wife to liberated--and thus irresponsible--woman is contrasted by the simultaneous coming of age of her daughter (Anna Paquin...
Like many of eBay's merchants, the Anzardos are proud of their spotless service record: they've received more than 300 positive-feedback ratings on the site's system, which lets prospective buyers gauge the honesty of a seller before sending off a fat check in the mail. However, a small group of parasites, including a Florida eBay user who was recently ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution, continue to plague this electronic marketplace. Two-thirds of all Internet fraud complaints last year were directed at auction sites, according to the National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly...
...completeness of Rowling's vision may explain Harry Potter's stunning popularity. First published in Britain in 1997, the book has scooped up an assortment of prizes. Scholastic paid $105,000 for the U.S. rights, and it has so far been on the New York Times best-seller list--adult best-seller list, that is--for 15 weeks. The sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (which will be out in the U.S. in June), has hit No. 1 on British best-seller lists, and some impatient U.S. fans have begun ordering copies through the British subsidiary of Amazon.com...