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...Hips, the author's ninth, more than lives up to his reputation?and has acquired one of its own. Written a decade ago, the book was at first banned over concerns that the Republican side in the Chinese civil war gets off too gently, but later became a best seller. The original has been trimmed considerably by the respected American translator Howard Goldblatt, though it's still a monster, with scores of characters and more action than an Indiana Jones movie. "You can skip my other novels, but you must read Big Breasts and Wide Hips," Goldblatt quotes the author...
Isaacs, 60, has hopped up the social ladder herself. When she wrote her first book, Compromising Positions, she was a housewife in Long Island, N.Y. That novel began her nine-book best-seller streak. Her fiction has since been translated into 30 languages, and two of her books have been made into films. Isaacs allows that her success has brought some changes. "The lifestyle got better and offered enormous opportunities, including not doing my own laundry," she says. But Isaacs, who still has an unmistakable New York accent, has stayed put on Long Island. "I see everything out there...
...obscure, retired New York schoolteacher named Frank McCourt published Angela's Ashes, the story of his childhood in Ireland. The book became a best seller, won a Pulitzer, was turned into a movie?and revolutionized the status of the memoir. Until then, the privilege of telling one's life story to a paying public had been the preserve of celebrities, but after Angela's Ashes, the memoir was thrown open to anyone, however young or unimportant. The point was no longer to pack a book with facts about your life (studied here, married there) but to produce a narrative, preferably...
Ever since John Grisham left the courtroom for the best-seller list, publishers have been paying large sums for fictionalized legal and criminal expertise. January alone saw high-profile books from Linda Fairstein, a 25-year veteran prosecutor in Manhattan's sex-crimes unit, as well as Bill Bonanno, an ex-mobster, and Joe Pistone, a Mafia-infiltrating ex-FBI agent. But Rimington, 69, is the biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired...
...once peripatetic lifestyle now confined to the interior of his villa. A close friend says Khan's health is poor, and he is given to bouts of depression. Although the man may fade into obscurity, the world is only beginning to reckon with his legacy. It's still a seller's market in the nuclear bazaar. And now there's room at the top. --With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/ Karachi, Sayed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Scott MacLeod/ Tripoli, Andrew Purvis/ Vienna, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg and Nahid Siamdoust/ Tehran