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With Child: Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher
Contributor(s): Martin, Andy (Author), Child, Lee (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 1509538224     ISBN-13: 9781509538225
Publisher: Polity Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Authorship
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Fiction Writing
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 2018059989
Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.70 lbs) 290 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal 09/27/2019 pg. 1
 
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Publisher Description:
With a foreword by Lee Child.

Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm, amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow writers like Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen.

But Martin also reaches out to Child's legion of readers in America and around the world. He tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home invasion scene in Make Me; he goes up a mountain in Montana in search of the only reader who thinks Reacher is a "lightweight"; and he talks to obsessive fans from Europe to South Africa who find salvation or consolation in the colossal form of Jack Reacher.

This compelling account of life on the road with Lee Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction.
 
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