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Article: On `The Road' of realism with Oprah
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2007
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oprah Winfrey's book club picks tend to be met with a flurry of
fanfare and technology: Book jacket stickers appear overnight;
publishers go into instant mega-printings; booksellers raze their
displays to make room for the new new thing. Whether her choice is
mainstream (Sidney Poitier), classic (William Faulkner), or even
publicly retracted (James Frey), the fact is that Oprah's mighty
reach guarantees the book a position on the bestseller list -
sometimes for years.
A lot of additional fuss has been made this week over Oprah's
selection of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic 2006 novel, "The
Road," as though the queen of feel-good affirmations had just gotten
in bed with ...
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