[bksvol-discuss] Fw Historical settings, fictional characters, winning combination, article ; USA today
- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:33:38 -0500
Hi all,
Here's a little article about some up-coming historical fiction titles. They
may give some ideas of interesting scanning options.
Kellie
> Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder is one of the new
> historical fiction titles that publishers and booksellers predict will be
> hot this fall.
>
> OTHER HISTORICAL FICTION OUT THIS FALL
>
> The Law of Dreams
> By Peter Behrens (Steer Forth, $24.95)
> Set during the Great Potato Famine of 1847.
>
> Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery
> By James R. Benn (Soho, $23).
> Boston Irish cop becomes Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's investigator during
World
> War II.
>
> Human Traces
> By Sebastian Faulks (Random House, $25.95)
> Starts in 1876; traces beginnings of psychiatry.
>
> Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
> By Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster, $26)
> First in a trilogy about orator Cicero and his struggle for power in Rome.
> Due Sept. 19.
>
> Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
> By Sena Jeter Naslund (William Morrow, $26.95)
> Portrait of the royal who never said "Let them eat cake."
> Due Oct. 3.
>
> The Rising Tide: A Novel of the
> Second World War
> By Jeff Shaara (Random House, $27.95)
> Focuses on the North African front.
> Due Nov. 7
>
> By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
> The colossal success last year of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, a
novel
> that imagined the life of Dracula set against the background of numerous
> world
> events, has publishers hoping that book-buying consumers are hungry for
more
> historical fiction.
>
> The broad definition of historical fiction throws many books into this
> thriving category. Mystery, thriller, conspiracy and religion hybrids
pepper
> the
> genre.
>
> Recent hit novels, including Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden and Cold
> Mountain by Charles Frazier, weave historical settings around fictional
> characters.
> Frazier's Thirteen Moons (Random House, $26.95, on sale Oct. 3) is eagerly
> awaited. The 19th-century-set novel is the tale of an orphan who lives
> alongside
> the Cherokee.
> Publisher Henry Holt is placing its bets on The Interpretation of Murder
> ($26) by Jed Rubenfeld, a thriller centered on Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit
to
> New
> York.
>
> "The Interpretation of Murder can definitely trace its family tree roots
to
> the success of The Historian," says Brad Parsons of Amazon.com. "It is
> certainly
> on our list as a hot book to take a look at this fall."
>
> Elaine Petrocelli of Book Passages in Corte Madera, Calif., says she will
> recommend Mary: A Novel by Janis Cooke Newman (MacAdam/Cage, $26) to
> readers.
> This novel about Mary Todd Lincoln "is a perfect example of why historical
> fiction works when it's in the right hands," she says. "You come away
> feeling
> you really know Mary, and it's very true to the time."
>
> Valerie Koehler of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston is a fan of the
> post-Civil War novel On Agate Hill (Algonquin, $24.95) by Lee Smith, out
> Sept. 19, and
> Dark Angels by Karleen Koen (Crown, $25.95), set in the Restoration era
> court of England's King Charles II.
>
> "People like to read historical fiction for the same reasons they like to
> watch the History Channel,"
>
> Koehler says. "If it's done right, it takes you to another place, but you
> have to make sure that world is a real world and you keep it consistent."
>
> But it isn't easy.
>
> "It's really a challenge to write historical fiction because just writing
a
> decent novel is difficult enough," says Thomas Mullen, whose debut novel,
> The
> Last Town on Earth (Random House, $23.95), is about a fictional town in
> Washington state that quarantines itself during the 1918 flu epidemic.
>
> "You have to be accurate to the historical time period and about the ways
> people spoke and the ways in which men and women interacted," Mullen says.
> "It's
> a whole other level of things you need to get right for the novel to
work."
>
>
>
>
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