![]() ![]() It sold 430,000 copies in hardcover, and there were 9.1 million paperbacks in print.Īs a book it was a great fourhandkerchief movie (and bad indeed been first written as a movie script): inevitably the movie went on to gross over $50 million. As Kurt Vonnegut said, the hook was as hard to put down as a chocolate Eclair. Yet in the moment of bathos, most readers could no more resist tears than readers of “Jaws” could resist shivers. $7.95.Īt the end the heroine expired in a death scene that suggested Oscar Wilde's dictum that “One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing”-of a disease with the symptomology of a had case of mono. It served up a love affair between a rich WASP Harvard jock and a pretty, poor, dirty‐talking diluted‐ethnic girl, in dialogue that was glib, contemporary‐collegiate and sometimes funny.īy Erich Segal. rent machines, gears greased by schmaltz, purring and clicking as it delivered simulated sentiments like a Swiss townhall clock parading its figurines on the stroke of the hour. ![]() Erich Segal's “Love Story” was one of those perfect little pop entertain. ![]()
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