The Bestseller - Hardcover

Goldsmith, Olivia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060178221 ISBN 13: 9780060178222

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1996

Synopsis

In a scathingly wicked and irreverent portrait of the publishing world, five authors and their books--all handled by big-time New York City publishing house Davis and Dash--compete for a position on the New York Times bestseller list. 125,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

Review:

For anyone pondering a career in publishing, The Bestseller--a fictional account of the frayed egos, sorted ideas, and strange economics that fuel the book industry--may be a dose of harsh reality. Olivia Goldsmith has created a tale of Davis & Dash, a Manhattan house run by an unspectacular publisher and a talented, but foul, editor. The new line of books doesn't exactly threaten to populate the Pulitzer list, though there's a serious 1,114-page work by a novelist who killed herself after her 23rd rejection letter. Goldsmith, who obviously deserves to be among the published, manages to puzzle these disparate pieces together into a cohesive story of the powers that be and those that hope to.

About the Author:

Olivia Goldsmith is the bestselling author of The First Wives Club, Flavor of the Month, Fashionably Late, The Bestsller, Marrying Mom,and Switcheroo. She lives in south Florida and is no longer young or a wife.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060178221
• ISBN 13: 9780060178222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 514