Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992
It Can't Happen Here
By Ian Buruma
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton
Knopf, 355 pp., $22.00
Once in a while—in America perhaps more than once in a while—a book comes along whose interest is chiefly in the hype attending it. Rising Sun is such a book. The text of the publicity handout announced that this 'explosive new thriller [was] rushed to publication one month earlier than previously announced because of its extraordinary timeliness with regard to US–Japan relations.'
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