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...psychologist Carol Gilligan's book about adolescent girls, "In a Different Voice," became an influential international bestseller. In 1996, TIME named Gilligan, by then a Harvard professor, one of the 25 most influential people in the U.S. In May, Knopf will publish Gilligan's new book, "The Birth of Pleasure," which Kirkus calls "an intellectual tour de force." According to Gilligan's publisher, her new book "explores the ways that humans experience and express love. Tracing a lineage from classical mythology to our own intimate relationships, Gilligan shows us why love between a man and a woman is so often...
...BLACK HAWKE DOWN: On July 23, Knopf will publish "Ash Wednesday," a novel by actor-author Ethan Hawke. The book is "the story of Jimmy - a young soldier who is AWOL from the army - and Christy, who pregnant with his child, and their journey toward becoming a family." 11-city author tour; first printing of 100,000 copies...
...believe that I ate the whole thing." "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is." "I love New York." Such jingles took Mary Wells Lawrence to the top of the advertising world in the 1960s. PW admires her new autobiography, "A Big Life in Advertising" (Knopf; May 12): "A beguiling look inside 30 years of the zippy, fast-moving culture, done with the kind of witty, charming self-deprecation often seen in the ads she created. FORECAST: Knopf's banking on this one with a 50,000 first printing and first serial to Vanity Fair and Advertising...
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...Kirkus applauds "The Emperor of Ocean Park," the much-buzzed-about first novel of Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter (Knopf), giving it a rhapsodic starred review. "This sleek, immensely readable first novel by Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...