European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Rushing to get Vav s is the habit of authors about to be published Marc Cerasini stopped at his local Book shop on the Way Home this weeknight to ask if his Book had arrived Quot yet. And when the Derk told him a tomorrow a it not Only seemed an eternity in relative terms it was one. A Cerasini wrote his Book in six Days. A it will not be the last word a Cerasini said of of. Simpson american hero american tragedy. Of a we might even update it if the first printing Sells a we is Kensington publishing a new York House that helped Pioneer the instant Book with paperbacks on Tonya Harding and the Bobbitt. . Book is related a Little breathlessly in a news release crediting chief executive officer Walter Zacharius for proposing the project on june 14, the Day after the bodies of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found. It took the sales staff Mere minutes to bring Back tentative orders for 100,000 copies at $4.99, a within one hour of the meeting Marc Cerasini was contacted and agreed to deliver the Book on monday june 20th. A the first part of the manuscript was typeset even As the second half was being Competition drove the deadline. The Globe supermarket tabloid announced plans to have juice the of. Simpson tragedy in bookstores on july 7. Then St. Martins press offered six figures to former up deadline Junkie d0n Davis author of quickie paperbacks on Jeffrey Dahmer and the me Mendez Brothers to take a whack at the Simpson Case. A \ Cerasini wont say what he made for beating Davis into stores by a week except a if you think of it As a weeks work it paid very a biography typically involves immense amounts of research. For the first volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson historian Robert Caro took seven years. A i did about eight hours of research a Cerasini said a and my Fiance did about 12 on june 24, final proofs were flown to the Printer in Dresden Tenn. Two Days later All 450,000 copies were being air freighted to bookstores everywhere a 100,000 More copies than sold of either the Bobbitt a or of thin ice the Complete uncensored Story of Tonya Harding americans bad girl of skating. A Karl Vick St. Petersburg times reviews the waterworks by . Doctorow random House. Nineteenth Century new York City has become a familiar setting for drama lately with last years film of Edith Wharton a the age of innocence and this years Short lived Best Selling novel the alienist. That City in its various 20th-Century versions is. Doctorow a Back Yard the backdrop for Many of his novels a the Book of Daniel ragtime worlds fair and Billy Bathgate. V now the novelist goes further Back in time to the Manhattan of 1871 for his cautionary tale of the arrogance of Modem science. The title refers to the vanished Croton holding Reservoir a massive Stone water tank on 42nd Street and fifth Avenue now the site of the new York Public Library. Doctorow turns the Reservoir a major civic and safety improvement for new York when it opened in 1842, into a Symbol of dread. This is not Doctorow a Best work but it does reinforce his position As one of americans Best fiction writers. A a a Bob Hoover Pittsburgh Post Gazette a father Story by Lionel Dahmer William Morrow amp company. Jeffrey Dahmer raped murdered and Cannibal Best Sellers of. Simpson in court wednesday. Lived his Way into the top ranks of american serial killers. About the Only thing that could be said in his favor was that in the end he seemed sorry for what. He had done a and that he never stooped to writing a Tell Al Memoir. Unfortunately the same cannot be. Said for Dahm crts father Lionel. Almost As soon As Lionel a mild mannered Milwaukee chemist began pitching his Book proposal the sneers and wisecracks began. Did America realty need the child rearing insights of the Man Jeffrey a Dahmer called a a dad but surprisingly a fathers Story Isnit All that offensive. Anyone who three years later is still asking the obvious questions about How Jeffrey Dahmer came to be will find plenty of possibilities in this compulsively readable Little volume. Nara Schoenberg Toledo Blade walking Shadow by Robert b. Parker fans of Parker who have skipped the last few books in his Spenser series walking Shadow May be a surprised a pleasant one. Quite a few readers including me defected a while Back when we decided that the Boston i with the assistance of his sidekick Hawk was spilling too much gratuitous blood for a Man of his supposed sensitivity and cultural interests. In walking Shadow a Kinder softer Spenser emerges. He quotes the classics sometimes in. French he a a Patsy for a dog named Pearl even allowing a occasionally a to sleep with him and his Long time love Susan Silverman and he a slaving away on weekends to renovate a farmhouse in. The country that Susan insisted they buy. Spenser a latest adventure is guaranteed to provide you with an evenings entertainment and have you looking Forward to the next one. A Sylvia Sachs Pittsburgh Post Gazette night prey by John Sandford Putnam. If you re into serial killer Quick hitting novels Sandford is your Man. This is his sixth prey number and he continues to build his Case As one of the Premier thriller authors a right behind Thomas Harris who lets Hope comes out soon with the follow to the silence of the lambs. Sandford 3gain deals his energetic formula a Lunatic murders another victim on the opening pages. Lucas Davenport of the Minneapolis police Force spends the rest of the Book Hunting the killer. Davenport is Sandford Sace. The character is a american James Bond Gutsy smart handsome Strong sexy Rich honorable a a Winner. He makes you feel Good a and turn the pages. A Bucky Fox sunday Magazine editor new York times list hardback fiction 1 Hie chamber by John Grisham last week 1 weeks on list 5 a 2 i be Lesline prophecy by James Redfield last week 2 weeks on list. 19 a. 3 the crossing by Cormac Mccarthy Iasi week 3 weeks on list 3 a 4 the alienist by Caleb Carr last week 5 weeks on list 13 a a a s waterworks by e. L doctor us last week 13 weeks on list 2 6 the Bridges of Madison county by Robert James Waller Iasi week 7. A weeks on list 100 a a 1 7 Inci cold by Clive Cussler last week 4 weeks on list 9 a a Quot 1 of the places you d got by or. Seuss Asu Rek 8 weeks on Lisl 133. 0 remember me by Mary Higgins Clark last week 6 weeks on Lisl 112. A 10 Poti chatty Correct bedtime stories by James finn gamer last week 16. A weeks on list 3 a a. A. 11 a squared by Peter David last week 9 weeks on list 3 12 mistress by Amanda Ouick last week 15 weeks on Lisl 4 .13 downtown by Anne Rivers Siddons first week on Lisl a .14 the fist of cod by Frederick Forsyth last week 10 weeks on list 10 15 night prey by John Sandford last we Etc 12 weeks on list 7. Nonfiction 1 by Bob Woodward last week 1 weeks on list 32 embraced by the Light by Betty j. Eadie with Curtis Taylor last week 2. Weeks on list 61. 3 the Book of Virtues by William j. Bennett Iasi week 3 weeks on list 29 4 a Day june 8,1944 by Stephen e. Ambrose last week 5 weeks on list a 5. A a Quot. 5 standing firm by Dan Quayle last week 4 weeks on list b a. 6 Midnight in the Garden at Good and evil by John by Rundt last week 6 weeks on list 18 a a. 7 beyond react by Richard Nixon last week 6 weeks on list 8. I Ula of the party by Christopher Ogden fast week 12 weeks Ion list 4 a 9 soul males by Thomas Moore last week 14 weeks on list 26 10 Reba my Story by Reba Mcentire with Tom Carter last week 11weeks on a list 10 a -. A. 11 the Htwe Man diaries by . Haldeman tast week 9 weeks on list 6 12 dive Barry is not making this up by Dave Barry last week 7 weeks on. List 2 a a. A. A a 13 saved by the Light by Danlon Brinkley with Paul Perry last week 15. Weeks 12. A. 14 All my october by Mickey Mantle with Mickey Herskowitz last week 10 a. Weeks on list 3. 15 old songs in a new cafe by Robert James Waller Iasi week 13 weeks on list 13 a 18 women who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes last week not listed weeks on Lisl 94. Miscellaneous 1 in this Kitchen with role by Rosie Daley last week 1 weeks on list 11 a 2 men Are from Man women Are from Venus by John Gray last week a 2 weeks on list 59 a. A 3 magic Eye ii by . Thing enterprises last week 3 weeks on list 11 4 magic Eye by . Thing enterprises last week 4 weeks on Lisl 25 / paperback fiction. 1 without remorse by Tom Clancy weeks on list 2 a. 2 the client by John Grisham weeks on list 213 a Case of need by Michael Crichton weeks on list 3 a 4 pleading guilty by Scott Turow weeks on Lisl 7. 5 perfect by Judith Mcnaught weeks on list 3. 6 the shipping news by e. Annie Proulx weeks on list 4 a 7 a time to kill by John Grisham weeks an list 101 a. A 8 Dart apprentice by Kevin j. Anderson weeks on Lisl 4. A 9 i la be seeing you by Mary Higgins Cark weeks on list 12 10 the Scorpio illusion by Robert Ludlum weeks on Lisl 8 11 the night manager by John be cart weeks on Lisl 3. 12 strip tease by car Hiaasen first week on list 13 a season in Purgatory by Dominick Danna weeks on Lisl 2 14 Honor among thieves by Jeffrey Archer weeks on list 2 15 Hill town by Anne weeks Montist 6 a. A nonfiction 1 Cara at the soul by Tonias Moore weeks on list 26 2 mama makes up mind by Bailey White weeks on list 10 3 listening to prozac by Peter d. Kramer weeks on list 8. A. 4 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 557 a a 5 re engineering the corporation by Michael Hammer weeks on list 7 6 i know Why the caged Bird Sirius by Maya Angeloo weeks on Lisl 73. 7 where Angels walk by Joan Wester Anderson weeks on list 26. B fortunate sen by Lewis 8. Puller weeks on list 6 9 girl interrupted by Susanna Kayson weeks on list 9 a 10 the longest Day by Cornelius Ryan weeks Montist 4 11 race matters by Cornel West weeks on list 12 a 12 a year in Provence by Peler Mayle weeks on list 143 13 the Tarot Pooh by Benjamin Hoff weeks on list 36. 14 secret ceremonies by Deborah Laake weeks on Lisl. 14 15 the silent passage by gait Shehy weeks on list 55. Miscellaneous 1 the seven habits of highly exec love people by Stephen r. Cd y weeks on list 173. 2 ran Mcnally Road Atlas weeks on Lisl 6. 3 what to expect when you re expecting by Arlene Eisenz cog Heidi a. Murky it and Sandee e. Hathaway weeks on list 35 4 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pool cordite and Martin utahn weeks on list 160. A most books listed Are available or on order at Siars and stripes bookstores. July 10, 1994 sunday Page 25 a a a a
