The Guardian - Tuesday 23 February 2016
Name: John Grisham
Age: 61.
Appearance: Successful attorney turned fabulous successful author of legal thrillers.
That’s amazing! Because that’s exactly what he is! I know! I admire consistency above all else, don’t you?
Absolutely. So – has he got a new page-turner out? Set in the south? Powerless little guy or poor black family up against an evil corporation and/or insurance company refusing to pay for the illness/injury/damage they caused? Good battling evil in a courtroom presided over by an agglomeration of human error and prejudice known as “the judge”, who may or may not do the right thing in the end? No.
What? No. That’s out the window.
Explain yourself. This is a 49-page novella called The Tumor.
Uh-oh. It’s about Paul, a man with brain cancer, and Grisham has written it to raise awareness of a new treatment called focused ultrasound. Grisham is on the board of a charitable foundation that believes it is the best hope for future patients.
Is there not even an attractively feisty young woman who interns with the hero for free and leavens proceedings by her mere physical presence? No. But Grisham is giving the work away free.
Really? Yes. He says it’s the most important book of his career.
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Age: 61.
Appearance: Successful attorney turned fabulous successful author of legal thrillers.
That’s amazing! Because that’s exactly what he is! I know! I admire consistency above all else, don’t you?
Absolutely. So – has he got a new page-turner out? Set in the south? Powerless little guy or poor black family up against an evil corporation and/or insurance company refusing to pay for the illness/injury/damage they caused? Good battling evil in a courtroom presided over by an agglomeration of human error and prejudice known as “the judge”, who may or may not do the right thing in the end? No.
What? No. That’s out the window.
Explain yourself. This is a 49-page novella called The Tumor.
Uh-oh. It’s about Paul, a man with brain cancer, and Grisham has written it to raise awareness of a new treatment called focused ultrasound. Grisham is on the board of a charitable foundation that believes it is the best hope for future patients.
Is there not even an attractively feisty young woman who interns with the hero for free and leavens proceedings by her mere physical presence? No. But Grisham is giving the work away free.
Really? Yes. He says it’s the most important book of his career.
More
And Washington Post story
1 comment:
Wow. And good on him.
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