Summertime blues

Summertime blues

Every summer, the drumbeat begins to summon a star fiction book from the wilderness: What will be this season's version of, say. The Lovely Bones, Little, Brown's sleeperturned-blockbuster of 2002? Little, Brown also had a mighty good run last summer with Elizabeth Kostova's The Histo...

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Published in:Publishers Weekly 2006-07, Vol.253 (28), p.3
Main Author: Nelson, Sara
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:eng
Subjects:
Book publishing
Coulter, Ann
Evanovich, Janet
Forecasts and trends
Frey, James (1969- )
Gore, Albert Jr
Koontz, Dean R
Market trend/market analysis
Marketing research
Nixon, Richard M
Publishing
Sales
Steel, Danielle
Summer
Updike, John (1932-2009)
Writers
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Summary:Every summer, the drumbeat begins to summon a star fiction book from the wilderness: What will be this season's version of, say. The Lovely Bones, Little, Brown's sleeperturned-blockbuster of 2002? Little, Brown also had a mighty good run last summer with Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. And for a couple of weeks now, Algonquin's Water for Elephants has been showing up on bestseller lists and bedside tables. But will it be the beach bag staple that makes a break-out summer success?
ISSN:0000-0019
2150-4008