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- <text id=90TT0147>
- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: Tweedy Tale
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 53
- Tweedy Tale
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- <p>By J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> Scholarship and fame rarely blend, but Charles Palliser, 42,
- a lecturer at Scotland's University of Strathclyde, seems to
- have the right mixture. He never expected The Quincunx, an
- 800-page Victorian-style mystery of wealth and vengeance on
- which he labored for twelve years, would be such a hot
- property. Ballantine Books plans a hefty U.S. printing next
- month, and the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Literary Guild
- have waged a six-figure bidding war over rights. "Every writer
- fantasizes that his novel will strike it big," says Palliser.
- "But if it happens, it's a fluke."
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