Going Like Sixty
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Oprah raves, books zoom to best-seller lists, authors find fame and fortune. For the third time, there has been a twist to an Oprah favorite book. The story is a fake. Herman Rosenblat said he met his wife while she was in a Nazi concentration camp. Oprah raved that it was the most romantic love story ever, but now the publisher has stopped printing and announced it was all a total fabrication. The other Oprah favorite book that was a fake was from Margaret Seltzer, “Love and Consequences,” a fake story about her life as a white girl in gangland in South Central L.A. The Oprah book favorite, “A Million Little Pieces,” was also proved to have been exaggerated by James Frey.  Ms. Winfrey, who hosted Mr. Rosenblat and his wife, Roma Radzicki Rosenblat, on her show twice, called their romance “the single greatest love story” she had encountered in her 22 years on the show. On Saturday night, after learning from Mr. Rosenblat’s agent that the author had confessed that the story was fabricated, Berkley Books, a unit of Penguin Group that was planning to publish “Angel at the Fence,
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