![]() ![]() ![]() Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1976, James Patterson's books have sold more than 170 million copies. Bridge refuses to let the family leave their dinner table at the country club - even though a tornado is thundering their way. A companion novel, published 10 years later, tells essentially the same story from the point of her lawyer husband. Bridge is told from the point of view of the mother, India Bridge. It was written by Evan Connell and published in 1959. I wouldn't say that anyone else must read anything.Ī novel to consider, one of my favorites, and probably the one that influenced me most, is the story of an ordinary middle-class family living in Kansas City. They were novels like Our Lady of the Flowers, Rabbit, Run, Ninety-Two in the Shade, The Sot-Weed Factor - whose writers were as different from one another as Jerzy Kosinski and John Hawkes, and Saul Bellow. My influences as a writer weren't best-sellers, and certainly not mysteries. Everybody thought I would go on to write serious fiction. Here's a surprise for you: The people who know me, really know me, think of me as an underachiever. ![]()
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