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Group: Six People In Search Of A Life (Riverhead; 339 pages; $25.95), Paul Solotaroff's tribute to his former group therapist, follows six New Yorkers with New Yorkers' problems: too much or not enough money, sex, drugs or ambition. Throw in childhoods with cruel or irresponsible parents, and you've got subjects willing to spend $100 a pop to discover their "true story...
Collecting the door fee and directing the cast is Dr. Charles Lathon, an effective but flawed psychiatrist whom Solotaroff admires with the awe of a proselyte-grad student, having once been counseled through a bout of panic disorder in a Lathon group. Solotaroff, a journalist, profiles a group that Lathon boasts is the "smartest bunch of people I've ever assembled": Sara, a beautiful former model turned fashion editor crippled in her search for a husband by daddy issues; Rex, a Wall Street jock recovering from an addiction to both coke and a blond-bombshell stripper; Dylan, a rock...
...Solotaroff promises an examination of the nuances of group therapy through these emotionally addled upper-crusters. His own two-year group experience convinced him of the doctor's effectiveness ("I got lucky"), so he doesn't dissect Lathon's new, 20-session process and the doctor's own subsequent need of rehabilitative help. Instead he focuses on the group members. Problem is, they have stories we've already seen on Oprah, the ultimate group forum. And it's hard to feel sorry for these people, with their luxury homes and contact-filled resumes. The successes and failures portrayed here...
WORDS ON THE PAGE, THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS. Three volumes edited by Catherine Lipkin and Virginia Solotaroff (Harper & Row; $14.95 each). Some 25 million adult Americans cannot read even product-identification labels or street signs; 35 million more are vocationally handicapped by inadequate reading skills. The problem is embarrassing, but trying to improve reading proficiency from books suited for children can also be humiliating. Deciding that writing "to" rather than "down to" their students was a better approach, editors Lipkin and Solotaroff sought and received literary contributions from a range of successful novelists, story writers and poets, including Garrison...
With the publication of his first novel in 1984, McInerney became the big brother of what Editor and Critic Ted Solotaroff calls the life-style fiction of the '80s. Bright Lights has sold 300,000 copies; it was hailed as the modern Catcher in the Rye, has been filmed with Michael J. Fox and Phoebe Cates, and is a bit of instant folklore in the book industry. Published as a paperback original by Random House's Vintage Contemporaries series, McInerney's romp gave readers a fast look at a young man's entry-level Manhattan. Bright Lights also...