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Fiction was king.
Week List Fiction 1 2 THE KING OF TORTS, by John Grisham.
Week Week List Fiction 1 1 2 THE KING OF TORTS, by John Grisham.
(And the melancholy fact that he died in 2009). Now that it has been translated into English for the first time — serviceably, by Ramon Glazov — it could, I suppose, take its place as a freshly exhumed classic from the period Laird Barron cites as the genre's heyday, except that it doesn't much resemble the horror fiction of that King-dominated time.
The king's fiction was that he was opposing a rebellion.
It is more on the order of a foundational myth, like the divine right of kings, a fiction that everyone involved must accept as fact.
And perhaps the plot is a nausea-inducing mess, but in literary fiction, plot isn't necessarily king.
Other beach-worthy fiction this season includes "The Kings of Cool," the Don Winslow book for anyone overdue in discovering Don Winslow.
He also publishes fiction, including a novel, Suicide Kings and short stories that are available at his website ChristopherJFerguson.com.
But the book was embraced by the Americans too; it won a Hugo award, science fiction's Oscar, named for Hugo Gernsback, king of the US pulp-fiction magazines.
What's more, it's a problem that her best work is non-fiction, when the novel is still king.
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