Little, Brown had hoped that The Hope, Herman Wouk's long-awaited saga about modern-day Israel's founding, would be a big book this winter. Seems Santa has been good to the publisher: The whole 450,000-copy first printing has been shipped to stores and a new batch of 30,000 is on its way. Wouk, the author of such high-soap-quotient historicals as The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, here gives us a sort of Love Under the Mortar Fire, a tale of four Israeli army officers and the women they love. The Hope appears at No. 8 this week. Weeks On Fiction List 1 Slow Waltz In Cedar Bend Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.95 7 2 The Bridges Of Madison County Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.9569 3 Without Remorse Tom Clancy, Putnam, $24.95 17 4 Nightmares & Dreamscapes Stephen King, Viking, $27.50 10 5 Lasher Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 12 6 Like Water For Chocolate Laura Esquivel, Doubleday, $17.50 36 7 A Dangerous Fortune Ken Follett, Delacorte, $23.95 9 8 The Hope Herman Wouk, Little, Brown, $24.95 3 9 The Book Of Guys Garrison Keillor, Viking, $22 1 10 Mr. Murder Dean Koontz, Putnam, $23.95 6
Nonfiction 1 See, I Told You So Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, $24 5 2 Private Parts Howard Stern, Simon & Schuster, $23 9 3 Seinlanguage Jerry Seinfeld, Bantam, $19.95 15 4 The Hidden Life Of Dogs Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Houghton Mifflin, $18.95 16 5 Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now Maya Angelou, Random House, $17 11 6 And If You Play Golf You're My Friend Harvey Penick, Simon & Schuster, $20 5 7 Embraced By The Light Betty J. Eadie, Gold Leaf Press, $14.95 30 8 Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Deepak Chopra, M.D., Harmony, $22 20 9 Having Our Say Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hearth, Kodansha, $20 3 10 The Downing Street Years Margaret Thatcher, HarperCollins, $30 6 Mass-Market Paperbacks 1 The Pelican Brief John Grisham, Dell, $6.99 44 2 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King, Signet, $6.99 3 3 Along Came A Spider James Patterson, Warner, $5.99 4 4 Mixed Blessings Danielle Steele, Dell, $6.99 5 5 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan, Ivy, $5.99 61 6 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara, Ballantine, $5.99 9 7 The General's Daughter Nelson DeMille, Warner, $6.50 8 8 Red Square Martin Cruz Smith, Ballantine, $5.99 4 9 Inadmissible Evidence Philip Friedman, Ivy, $5.99 8 10 The Way Things Ought To Be Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, $6.99 14
SOURCE:Publishers Weekly
