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Bestseller de Olivia Goldsmith
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Bestseller (1996 original; edició 1997)

de Olivia Goldsmith (Autor)

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:From a New York Timesâ??bestselling author, comes this "highly entertaining tale [with] considerable humor and some cynical fun at the expense of the book business" (Publishers Weekly).

At Davis & Dash, one of New York's most prestigious publishing houses, five new authors will be publishedâ??but only one of them will be a bestseller. They have worked long and hard to write their novels of romance and murder, drama and love, but the story behind the stories is even more exciting. And the vicious competition to get the right agent, the perfect editor, and the choice spot on the bestseller list must be seen to be believed.

From the author of The First Wives Club, this "dishy" novel set in New York's book publishing industry (Glamour) is a fun behind-the-scenes romp with "lots of romance and revenge" (The Washington Post Book World).

"Extremely satisfying." â??The New York Times Book Review… (més)
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Títol:Bestseller
Autors:Olivia Goldsmith (Autor)
Informació:Harper Collins Paperbacks (1997), Ausgabe: New Ed, 688 Seiten
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Es mostren 1-5 de 13 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Not bad, though found some of the secondary characters were light and poorly defined ( )
  nordie | Oct 14, 2023 |
Pandemic read. Fun riff on the publishing industry, back in the day before the world went truly digital. ( )
  bookczuk | May 23, 2021 |
Novel about authors and the publishing industry. ( )
  LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |
OMG!! This book was absolutely, positively the most boring book I have ever read. 700 pages of crap! I almost did not finish it, but I mad a promise to myself a while back, that no matter how bad the book was, I was going to finish it. This is the first book that made me want to go back on that promise. The only good thing about the book, it that all the horrible people got what they deserved in the end. Maybe it's just not my cup of tea. I like lots of action and suspense in my books and this was definitely not that! Not for me. I would not read again. ( )
  kkranig | Sep 4, 2018 |
A dishy and delightful romp through the publishing world. With overdrawn characters and a quickish pace (though the book itself is much too long) this book is light, easy and fun. ( )
  dcmr | Jul 4, 2017 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 13 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Bestseller tells the story (among others) of Emma, an editorial Cinderella – underpaid, overworked in a cramped office and unappreciated at a wickedly managed publishing house. Her virtues are finally trumpeted in Publishers Weekly, while she becomes editor in chief at a new ‘boutique publisher’.
Goldsmith knows every trick of the publishing trade of which she is writing, having worked in it herself.
The original, hardback edition of Bestseller runs to 507 pages. The three pages of acknowledgements begin with: "So many people contributed to this book that I had to put together an index. (I hope all of you actually read the book, but if you only want to see your name mentioned, just consult the back.)"
The disclaimer reads: "This novel is entirely a work of fiction. Though it contains incidental references to actual people and places, these references are used merely to lend the fiction a realistic setting . . ."
The index (triple-column, six pages) consists of names of people - real-life or fictional - only, with no topics, place names or subheadings.
The celebrity and professional names relate in different ways to the book. Each of the 110 chapters is headed by an attributed quotation about writing or publishing – that accounts for the appearances of such as Margaret Atwood and Graham Greene in the index. Then there are text passages carefully contrived to yield interesting index entries, such as: "Years at the library reading Flaubert, Turgenev, Austen, Forster and the other greats had given Opal an informed and exquisite taste. Now she found that she could write. Not as well as Beryl Bainbridge or Kay Gibbons or Anita Brookner, but . . ."
"I think it’s like our Hello magazine. Rock stars and their wives, and endless stories on Paula Yates and Princess Caroline of Monaco."
These celebrity names all make their – surely superfluous – appearance in the index.
This index seems to be intended as an appetite-whetter, a marketing ploy – and the text devised in some measure to provide suitable matter for the index.
Alas, the index was omitted from the 688-page paperback edition of 1997. Why - joke over?
afegit per KayCliff | editaThe Indexer, Hazel K. Bell (Aug 4, 2009)
 
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Sales conference was a hallowed tradition at Davis & Dash, despite the terrors and boredom involved. It was the chance for the house’s two enemy camps -- the editorial and the sales staffs -- to meet, catfight, lay blame, and then be united in the huge joint effort to push and sell the ever growing number of books on the fall list.
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:From a New York Timesâ??bestselling author, comes this "highly entertaining tale [with] considerable humor and some cynical fun at the expense of the book business" (Publishers Weekly).

At Davis & Dash, one of New York's most prestigious publishing houses, five new authors will be publishedâ??but only one of them will be a bestseller. They have worked long and hard to write their novels of romance and murder, drama and love, but the story behind the stories is even more exciting. And the vicious competition to get the right agent, the perfect editor, and the choice spot on the bestseller list must be seen to be believed.

From the author of The First Wives Club, this "dishy" novel set in New York's book publishing industry (Glamour) is a fun behind-the-scenes romp with "lots of romance and revenge" (The Washington Post Book World).

"Extremely satisfying." â??The New York Times Book Review

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