Girl on the Best Seller List, The

The book that damned an entire town... Fern Fulton - ''I'm the only friend Gloria Wealdon has in this town. How could she write those dreadful things about me and my husband and our daughter?" Virginia Fulton, age 15 - ''Mrs Wealdon's a stinker and I'd like to murder her and write a sequel to her book. I'd call it Population 12,359.'' Dr. Jay Mannerheim, psychologist - ''Gloria Wealdon has simply touched off unpleasantries that in many cases would have exploded sooner or later anyway.'' Milo Wealdon - ''I never realized my wife had such contempt, such loathing for me until I read her book.'' Min Stewart - ''My family has been here for generations. I consider Gloria Wealdon so vulgar as to be quite beneath contempt.'' Gloria Wealdon - ''The hell with everybody in this snotty town. They made my life miserable. Now we're even.''