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...books later, Mayle is something of a publishing phenomenon. Toujours Provence (Knopf; $20), his second collection of essays, is climbing the best- seller lists. The success story began two years ago with the British publication of A Year in Provence. The hardback edition at first received a mild, pleasant response, but never underestimate favorable word of mouth. In paperback the book was No. 1 on the charts for 60 weeks, and Mayle's plumber, mason and the rest of the artisans became popular heroes. In the U.S. the paperback has just appeared, and the publisher is rushing extra printings...
...symptoms are everywhere. Sports stars who can't string together a grammatical sentence in a post-game interview show up on the covers of hardback autobiographies written "with" a ghostwriter (whose name appears in small print at the bottom...
...this is a real luxury for magazine journalists -- we could wait until the war was over, and events began to move into historical perspective, before we sent the chapters off to press. The result of these efforts is Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf, a 240-page hardback volume that began appearing in bookstores last week. The book, which is being published by the Time Inc. Book Co. and distributed by Little, Brown and Co., contains 129 color and black-and-white illustrations, many of which have never been published...
...into narrative form. One L was published just before his final year at Harvard. Some of his professors and classmates did not like the book -- and particularly their thinly disguised appearances in it -- but most reviewers were ecstatic. One L went on to sell some 40,000 copies in hardback and to become an underground, pass-along classic among law students. Turow confesses himself thrilled by "my first taste of literary success," but he was not swayed from the new path he had chosen. "I gave no thought," he says, with heavy emphasis, "to not practicing...
AUGUST 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). Since this novel first appeared in English 17 years ago, the 1970 Nobel laureate has added some 300 pages to his fictional but heavily researched saga of Russia's catastrophic involvement in World...