A Sextet en Masse
by Daisy Maryles, with Dick Donahue -- Publishers Weekly, 8/18/1997
One of the six newcomers to the mass market list is Dark Paradise, Tami Hoag's newly repackaged backlist suspense novel; Bantam has more than 1.2 million copies in print after five trips to press. The other mass market newcomers (in addition to Stuart Woods's Dirt) are led off with Scott Turow's The Laws of Our Fathers, which Warner Vision published with a 1,375,000-copy first printing; three trips back to press have taken that figure to 1,545,000. Turow's appearances will include a somewhat unusual venue: he'll be a guest next month on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. PW's starred review of The Regulators predicted that author Richard Bachman (reported kin to Stephen King) would "hit the charts hard and fast"; it now seems that prognostication will be equally true for Signet's mass market edition, which had a two-million-copy first printing. Also joining the list is John le Carre, whose The Tailor of Panama was published by Ballantine August 5. The final newcomer is notable for its "non-celebrity" status-as well as for being a nonfiction title on a list generally populated with novels. It's The Arthritis Cure by J. Theodosakis, B. Adderly and B. Fox; St. Martin's, which published it this month with an 800,000-copy printing, is no doubt hoping that this edition duplicates-or betters-its 14-week run on our hardcover list.
