Irving Wallace
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Irving Wallace was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. His extensively researched books included such page-turners as The Chapman Report (1960), about human sexuality; The Prize (1962), a fictional behind-the-scenes account of the Nobel Prizes; The Man, about a black man becoming president of the U.S. in the 1960s; and The Word (1972), about the discovery of a new gospel.
Books
The Man
The small man who appears one morning in John's bedroom proves to be a rather demanding houseguest.
The Prize
The Three Sirens
The shattering impact of the morals and customs of a tiny Polynesian community tears open the lives of visitors to a group of undiscovered Pacific islands. Here, untouched by western taboos and inhibitions, they discover the very depths of their own natures, desires, fears and passions. Promiscuous, impotent, bored, frightened, mother-dominated - this odd assorted group of men and women discover that unfettered freedom reveals their unknown selves with a relentless intimacy which cannot be ignored. Against the background of these Utopian coral islands, Irving Wallace has shown an idyllic way of life which exposes many of the deformities and hypocrisies of some of our most cherished beliefs and customs.
Cud
Thousands of desperate people are drawn to Lourdes and its renowned Grotto when the Vatican announces that the Virgin Mary will perfrom another miracle cure there. Their lives are at stake ... but will a miracle really occur?
The intimate sex lives of famous people
There is some reassuring evidence that celebrated people have always behaved very much like the rest of us. Well, mostly. Not as lascivious as you might think, this book is an excellent collection of capsule biographies from every facet of the human drama.