![]() I need to write somebody who thinks more in terms of action, who thinks more in terms of action rather than about his own thinking all the time. I got to the point where I was like, “Oh my God, I need to write someone who does not have his head stuck up his bum. Unusually for French, the novel is told in the third person, and the main character is an American (though it’s still set in Ireland) the novel is “action-based,” and French told EW that it has “slightly a flavor of a Western, almost, in that it’s the retired gunslinger being dragged out of his retirement for one last job.” She also assures us that The Searcher will be a bit more upbeat than The Witch Elm: Like her most recent novel, The Witch Elm, The Searcher will be a standalone literary thriller. So I was happy to be alerted this afternoon to one undeniably good thing in the pipeline of the book universe: a new novel by Tana French, currently scheduled to be published on October 6th by Viking. ![]() ![]() I don’t know about you, but I am desperate, these days, for good news-not to mention things to look forward to. ![]()
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