Coming: One Film and a bunch of Good Books...

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

FICTION/DEBUT:

Author of NYT bestseller Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo's THE WALK-IN, about what happens when a defector "walks into" an embassy with information suggesting millions are in peril - and a CIA super-interrogator must urgently determine whether the defector is telling the truth, again to Rick Horgan at Crown, by Heather Mitchell at Gelfman Schneider (world).Rights: LKaplan@randomhouse.com

Joanne Proulx's ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET, in which a seventeen-year-old fortells the death of his best-friend with freakish accuracy, everyone in his hometown finds out, and life gets complicated fast, to Katie Herman at Soho Press, in a nice deal, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Literary Agency (US).Foreign: sam@tla1.com

THRILLER:

Professor of Physics at Cornell University and expert on nanotechnology Paul McEuen's biotech thriller A THIN STRAND, mixing history and technological fact to create a frightening tale of imminent ecological and political catastrophe, to Susan Kamil at Dial Press, in a two-book deal, by Jane Gelfman at Gelfman Schneider (US).UK: Peter RobinsonTranslation: Betsy Robbins at Curtis Brown

GENERAL/OTHER:

Marguerite Duras' unpublished World War II notebooks, including original material for her major works, such as The Lover and The War, and exclusive short stories, translated by Linda Coverdale, to Andre Schiffrin at the New Press, for publication in March 2008, by Violaine Huisman of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency (NA).Rights previously sold to Suhrkamp in Germany, Siruela and Edicions 62 in Spain, Feltrinelli in Italy, Metaichmio in Greece, Meulenhoff in Holland, Asa in Portugal, Yi Wen in China, Woongjin in Korea, Kawade Shobo Shinsha in Japan, Like in Finland and Modernista in Sweden by Vibeke Madsen at POL Editeur. madsen@pol-editeur.fr.

Journalist, playwright, screenwriter, entrepreneur (Paul Newman's partner in "Newman's Own"), and Papa Hemingway author A. E. Hotchner's THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HEMINGWAY, a compilation of never-before-published Hemingway comments, ruminations, observations, and apercus, organized around the themes of writing, war, sports, movies, hunting, exploring, women, life and death, accompanied by photos from the author's personal collection, to Daniel Halpern at Ecco, by Paul Bresnick at Paul Bresnick Agency (world).
UK:

Nicola Upson's AN EXPERT IN MURDER, set in the London theater world of the 1930s, to Walter Donohue at Faber, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2008, by Karolina Sutton at ICM. Rachel.alexander@faber.co.uk
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Columbia Journalism Review's REPORTING IRAQ: AN ORAL HISTORY BY THE JOURNALISTS WHO COVERED IT, to Kelly Burdick of Melville House, by Steve Wasserman at Kneerim & Williams (World).

CBS news producer Alan Weisman's PRINCE OF DARKNESS -- RICHARD PERLE: The Kingdom, The Power, and the End of Empire in America, an investigative biography of the influential foreign policy thinker, Washington insider, and architect of the war in Iraq, to Philip Turner in his first acquisition at Union Square Press/Sterling, for Fall 2007, by Sharlene Martin at Martin Literary Management (world).pturner@sterlingpub.comsharlene@martinliterarymanagement.com

Columbia Journalism Review's REPORTING IRAQ: AN ORAL HISTORY BY THE JOURNALISTS WHO COVERED IT, to Kelly Burdick of Melville House, by Steve Wasserman at Kneerim & Williams (World).

FILM:

Stanley Alpert's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, a prosecutor's account of a night in 1998 when he was kidnapped, optioned to United Artists, by Joel Gotler at Intellectual Property Group, on behalf of Ronald Goldfarb of Goldfarb &
Associates.

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