William Jovanovich, Author University of South Carolina Press $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-57003-530-2
Jovanovich (1920-2001) is probably best known for building one of book publishing's largest houses, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and for editing such luminaries as Mary McCarthy and Charles A. Lindbergh. But the Colorado native lived a colorful life...
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William Jovanovich, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-15-199432-8
This is the fourth novel by the recently retired chairman of the company that bears his name, and although it has some impressive virtues it never convinces us that Jovanovich is a natural novelist. He has a grasp of character, and a knack for...
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William Jovanovich, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-15-162050-0
Ex-cop Ted ``Smithy'' Smithfield, the touchy, gallant Venice, Calif., detective in this literate, diverting thriller, has good reason to be suspicious of his beautiful client, fugitive Helen Madden: she's wanted by the feds, the cops and the Mafia....
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William Jovanovich, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-15-183095-4
This latest book by publisher/novelist Jovanovich begins with promise. A small-time thug has been recruited to execute a hospital patient who is about to reveal the secrets of his mobster-employer's financial records. Intercepted by the FBI, the...
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