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...their rainfall. The 32 acres of U.S.-leased land on both sides of the bay resemble less the lush semitropical island across the minefields than the set for a Hollywood western: sandy, rock-strewn hills and beaches, barren except for a random dotting of cactus. Hardly the site anyone would choose to build from scratch what amounts to a new city for 65,000 people...
Filmmakers may try, but no movie will match the real-life horror described in Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (Random House; 302 pages; $23). The book, due in stores later this month, is an expanded version of the New Yorker article that sent Hollywood scrambling...
Bidding wars for the audio rights to potential best sellers are becoming nearly as heated as those waged over movie rights. Tom Clancy's newest novel, Debt of Honor, was picked up by Random House Audio for a record sum -- reportedly $1 million. Though sales of a typical book on tape still represent only a fraction of the hardcover sales (usually 10% or less), the numbers are climbing. The Bridges of Madison County, read by author Robert James Waller, sold 163,000 audio copies. Some 250,000 tapes of John Grisham's latest novel, The Chamber, have been shipped...
...most perplexing beach read of the summer is a train wreck of a novel by John Gregory Dunne, a very good writer (True Confessions, Harp) whose fiction usually stays nicely on the rails. Trying to figure out what went wrong with Playland (Random House; 494 pages; $25) should keep writers' workshops twittering until Norman Mailer publishes his next thousand pager...
After one solution to operate on her legs failed, Diana was confined to a wheelchair. Her fingers have been put in metal braces to prevent them from cramping up, rendering her helpless. She passes out into a deep sleep at random times, only awaking when Deric slaps her forcefully...