From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION/DEBUT:
Wisconsin bookseller Ellen Baker's KEEPING THE HOUSE, a multigenerational saga of the downfall of a Midwestern family, through the eyes of a lonely new bride and youngest member of a small town's sewing circle as she attempts to uncover the family's story by secretly caring for their abandoned Victorian house, to Kate Medina at Random House, in a pre-empt, for two books, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
FOREIGN:
Foreign rights to Milos Forman & Jean-Claude Carriere's GOYA'S GHOSTS, the novel of their upcoming film about the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, set in Spain when the Revolution has sent neighboring France into turmoil and the Spanish church decides to bring back the dreaded Inquisition, Goya's teenage muse is falsely accused of heresy, raped, and imprisoned due to the manipulations of an ambitious and zealous monk - the story opposes the priest's extremism to Goya's search to portray humankind, to Tusquets in Spain, in a good deal; to ASA in Portugal; Compahnia Das Letras in Brazil; Empuries in Catalan; DTV in Germany; Rizzoli in Italy; Livanis in Greece; Vatan in Turkey; Hyndae Munhak in South Korea; Beltek in Japan; Geleos in Russia; Ulpius in Hungary; Alpress in the Czech Republic; Ucila in Slovenia; Metafora in Slovakia; and Laguna in Serbia, by Rebecca Byers and Sylvie Breguet at Editions Plon.
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Former CIA station chief for Europe Tyler Drumheller's ON THE BRINK: How the White House Has Compromised American Intelligence, exploring the gradual erosion of the CIA's independence, its descent into bureaucratic inertia and its abuse by powerbrokers seeking to achieve their own political ends, along the way shedding new light on how America was propelled into war with Iraq, and the war's detrimental effect on our national security, to Philip Turner at Carroll & Graf, by Carmen Lavia at the Fifi Oscard Agency (world).carmenagent@fifioscard.com philip.turner@avalonpub.com
Former UN Weapons inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter's TARGET IRAN: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change, an exploration of the Iran nuclear crisis, which exposes the role the neo-cons are playing in inflaming the situation, to Carl Bromley at Nation Books (world).yuliab@avalonpub.com carlb@thenation.com
MEMOIR:
Dean Kohler's FLAK JACKET ROCK, co-authored by rock biographer Susan VanHecke, which tells Kohler's story of being drafted into the Vietnam War at age 18 one day after signing a recording deal with Tower Records and forming a rock band that played for the troops right in the middle of battle zones, to Phoebe Yeh at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Jodie Rhodes (world).jrhodes1@san.rr.com
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