[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw Historical settings, fictional characters, winning combination, article ; USA today
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
Interesting article. Thanks, Kellie.
Cindy
--- Kellie Hartmann <hart0421@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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