Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 9, 1995 TAG: 9509120084
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B-9 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: NEW YORK LENGTH: Medium
The novel was discovered in 1960 among the wreckage of the car crash that killed Camus. According to Knopf, the family had withheld the manuscript, a handwritten first draft, fearing its rough, unedited form would be criticized by the author's rivals.
It was finally published in France last year and became a best-seller. The Knopf version appears in the unedited form of the original manuscript. It is published in hardcover at $23.
``The First Man'' is an autobiographical novel that Camus had intended to be the first volume in a projected series. It covers the author's childhood in Algeria.
`Mockingbird' Takes Wing Again
NEW YORK - HarperCollins has just published a deluxe hardcover edition of Harper Lee's ``To Kill a Mockingbird'' to commemorate the 35th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Set in a small town in the American South of the 1930s, the novel tells the story of a lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. It is narrated by Scout, the lawyer's young son.
The new edition features the design of the original 1960 jacket and a new foreword by the author. It retails for $17.
`Bone' Buyers Get Bonus
NEW YORK - Dutton has a gift for buyers of ``Bone Deep,'' Darian North's new hardcover thriller - a copy of North's first novel, ``Criminal Seduction.''
Dutton will send a paperback copy of ``Criminal Seduction'' at no charge to readers who submit required proof of purchase. Complete details are given on the jacket flap of ``Bone Deep.''
In ``Bone Deep,'' Iris Lanier, a forensic anthropologist, struggles with two mysteries surrounding her parents - one who lies near death after a mugging and one who disappeared 20 years ago.
- Associated Press
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