Speaking of the Fantastic III. Брайан Герберт

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СКАЧАТЬ well economically—Australia is a Standard & Poor’s dream—but Australians have become politically passive and unaware, while a pro-business, anti-union government has profoundly changed the nature of workplace relations. We’re reliving the greedy eighties here in Australia, and arbitrage and Reagan’s trickle-down theories reign supreme.

      Yet the culture remains vibrant, and Janeen and I spend most of our time writing at our farm by the sea, and making forays to our apartment in Melbourne.

      A good life between the lengthening shadows.

      And the Dean book was published in 2004, titled The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean. The U.S. paperback edition should be in bookstores by the time this goes to press. Although I would guess that a lot of my genre readers didn’t see the book, which was packaged as mainstream, the genre reviews were terrific. (Locus: “Jimmy’s personal discussions and confrontations, often by phone, possess a crackling laconic energy worthy of a powerful film script. In this Dann has embraced a technique perfect for a Hollywood psychological novel, and it is by his words, tender or frenzied, that the phantom of James Dean acquires full, extraordinary life. No superficial Tinseltown gossip here, no languorous intrigues on the film set: instead, private torment, public rage.”)

      Some of the mainstream reviewers loved the book, others couldn’t understand the idea of writing alternate history as literary mainstream (But James Dean died! How can you write a book about his life after the accident?), and a few became really upset with my literary icon-smashing. Kirkus Reviews, for instance, called The Rebel “Relentlessly trashy and profane, name-dropping and scandal-mongering”...“a Harold Robbins-style tale of gratuitous sex, ambition, and famous people behaving badly.” (I really did try to explain to my film agent that this was a negative review, but she just wouldn’t believe me.)

      I still haven’t written my “Australian” novel. I’m working on a novel based on my novella “The Diamond Pit.” I’m still fascinated with America and the American Dream, and the novel will be a sort of family saga that begins in the 1800’s, works its way through the 1920’s and into the present. Well, I think it will end in the present. For me, stories are live things that constantly surprise and confound all my preconceived plots. Oh, yes, I’ve done a collection of my collaborative short stories called The Fiction Factory, which will be published in October; and I’m working on a number of anthologies. I’m also working on a psychological novel about nasty politics tentatively titled Extra Duty.

      After all, I have to keep up my reputation as the new Harold Robbins.

      19 June 2005

      Windhover Farm

      Australia

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