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I got to meet Fountain last month in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books Larry Send a noteboard - 13/11/2012 10:56:43 PM
It's an easy read, and yet there's a lot packed into the book. I really enjoyed the way it was written, and like you I thought the characterisation was great.


He's a very nice and humble man. We talked briefly while he was signing my book about our mutual love for Gabriel García Márquez's fiction and translations and he struck me as the sort of person who writes to discover what it is about people that make us do such outrageous things such as those described in the book.

You might also be interested in this dual interview of Fountain and Powers that the NYTBR ran earlier today:
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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