Deals

Korean rights to Robin Oliveira’s MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER to Wisdomhouse Publishing by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Korean rights to Roland Merullo’s GOLFING WITH GOD to Pac-Com Korea by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Complex Chinese rights to Meg Waite Clayton’s THE WEDNESDAY SISTER to Marco Polo Publisher by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Complex Chinese rights to Jacqueline Novogratz’s THE BLUE SWEATER by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency to Commonwealth Publishing at auction on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Kelly O’Connor McNees’s THE LOST SUMMER OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, imagining a romance that could have taken place in summer of 1855, when poverty forced the Alcott family to move to a New Hampshire village where Louisa may have fallen in love and ultimately had to chose between a man she loved and her dream of becoming a writer, to Amy Einhorn of Amy Einhorn Books, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Alice Kaplan’s TO LIVE IN FRANCE, the stories of three women who went to live in France as students, Jacqueline Bouvier (1949-1950), Susan Sontag (1957-1958), and Angela Davis (1963-1964) and how each was uniquely and profoundly affected by a year of study in Paris and how that year not only shaped the rest of their lives but the course of American culture and politics, to Alan Thomas of University of Chicago Press, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).

UK rights to Ron Rash’s SERENA one of New York Times’ Janet Maslin 10 Favorite Books of 2008 to Anya Serota of Canongate by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Complex Chinese rights to Meg White Clayton’s THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS to Marco Polo Publisher by Gray Tan of Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

DEAL OF THE DAY — Pat Conroy’s THE DEATH OF SANTINI, about his often abusive and complicated father’s final days, and Pat’s coming to terms with him (a Marine fighter pilot who inspired the novel The Great Santini, remembered by many for Robert Duvall’s Oscar-nominated film portrayal of him), to Steve Rubin and Nan Talese at Doubleday, in a major deal, for seven figures, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world).

Adam Langer’s THE THIEVES OF MANHATTAN, about a fake memoir that reveals the theft of a priceless ancient manuscript from a most unusual library and the down-on-his-luck writer who becomes embroiled in what turns out to be an elaborate confidence game designed to scam the publishing world, to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).