Dragaera

Brust interview

Wed May 12 10:07:27 PDT 2004


On Wed, 12 May 2004, John Klein wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Chris Turkel wrote:
>
> @> > @> My wife and I joke that the next book will solely consist of Rand
> @> > @> having breakfast for 1000 pages... (and hence why we'll wait for the
> @> > @> local library to get it... )
> @> >
> @> > Why is it that this idea actually sounds kind of neat to me? Not from
> @> > Jordan, of course. Just a 1000 page book set entirely at a
> @> > breakfast-table.
> @>
> @> An epic fantasy that never leaves the breakfast table! Someone much
> @> smarter than I could pull it off. Me I'd kill everyone off from boredom
> @> on page 50.
>
> So, basically, the remaining 9950 pages would be a detailed account of the
> putrefaction of their corpses. Ingenius!

This has been written, by Jim Crace - it's called _Being Dead_.  It won
the Nation Book Circle Award.

Though to be accurate it's only 195 pages.