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...SHANA Alexander's Very Much a lady is not the first book on the murder of Scarsdale's "Diet Doc" Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...
VERY MUCH A LADY by Shana Alexander Little, Brown; 316 pages...
Although outdistanced by Trilling's earlier effort, Journalist Shana Alexander has lavished her considerable reportorial skills on Very Much a Lady, interviewing hundreds of people who knew the doctor and his lover. Alexander has emerged with a portrait of Harris' selfish, hardhearted, authoritarian father that goes far to explain her longstanding tolerance of Tarnower's ill-treatment. The author acknowledges a sense of identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician...
...killing of Dr. Herman Tarnower by Jean Harris was-in current parlance-an "upscale" crime. Accordingly, three upscale women were contracted to write books about it. Shana Alexander and Lally Weymouth are journalists with good exposure and better connections. Diana Trilling is a redoubtable essayist whose clear thinking and case-hardened prose have cut through much of the intellectual and political lard of the past 40 years...
When the Romance Writers of America convene in Houston this summer, those workers will also include Christina Savage and Shana Carol a.k.a. Kerry Newcomb and Frank Schaefer, two male ex actors who have gleaned atmosphere from old John Wayne movies. Although these romanticists represent the new Grub Street, the income of some superstars is more suitable for Rodeo Drive. The authors' earnings from a single volume can reach $30,000, and novelists like Janet Dailey (80 million copies of 57 novels in print) produce eight books a year for a six-figure income. Experience is not necessary. Bestselling Writers...