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Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me

Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me

Martin, Andy

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1509540849
ISBN13: 9781509540846
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Apr 27 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.

On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee Child embarked on the twentieth book in his globally successful Jack Reacher series. Andy Martin was there to see him do it, sitting a couple of yards behind him, peering over his shoulder as the writer took another drag of a Camel cigarette and tapped out the first sentence: Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. Miraculously, Child and Martin stuck with it, in tandem, for the next 8 months, right through to the bitter-sweet end and the last word, needle.

Reacher Said Nothing is a one-of-a-kind meta-book, an uncompromising account in real time of the genesis, evolution and completion of a single work, Make Me. While unveiling the art of writing a thriller Martin also gives us a unique insight into the everyday life of an exemplary writer. From beginning to end, Martin captures all the sublime confidence, stumbling uncertainty, omniscience, cluelessness, ecstasy, despair, and heart-thumping suspense that go into writing a number-one bestseller.

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