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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-28-08 01:23 AM
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Publication of disputed Holocaust memoir canceled
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story - embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others - of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp.

"I wanted to bring happiness to people," Rosenblat said in a statement issued Saturday through his agent, Andrea Hurst. "I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world."

Rosenblat's "Angel at the Fence" had been scheduled to come out in February, but Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), withdrew the memoir following allegations by scholars, friends and family members that his tale was untrue.

"Berkley Books is canceling publication of `Angel at the Fence' after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat's agent, Andrea Hurst," the publisher said in a statement. "Berkley will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they have received for this work."



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   Clifford Irving was enough for me!  IndianaGreen   Dec-28-08 01:28 AM   #1 
   Yeah, Irving...  adsosletter   Dec-28-08 01:29 AM   #2 
   Oprah  Baby Snooks   Dec-28-08 05:33 AM   #3 
   Why is Oprah an Arbiter of Literature?  dynasaw   Dec-28-08 06:50 AM   #4 
   IMHO, anyone who'd lie about the Holocaust should be spat on.  No Elephants   Dec-28-08 02:19 PM   #5 
 
IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-28-08 01:28 AM
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1. Clifford Irving was enough for me!
Rosenblat could have just peddle his book as fiction, and be done with it.
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-28-08 01:29 AM
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2. Yeah, Irving...
didn't a British court put him on trial?
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Baby Snooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-28-08 05:33 AM
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3. Oprah
Oprah seems to find the worst of the frauds and promotes them. No names because she likes to blacklist those who criticize her. But more and more people are tuning in less and less because of it. Smart people never tuned in at all. Smart people can think for themselves. Oprah found her niche, and her fortune, preying on those who can't.
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dynasaw Donating Member (374 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-28-08 06:50 AM
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4. Why is Oprah an Arbiter of Literature?
Never understood what qualified Oprah to be a literary critic and taste maker any way?
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5. IMHO, anyone who'd lie about the Holocaust should be spat on.
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