The Plot
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“Insanely readable.” —Stephen King
Hailed as “breathtakingly suspenseful,” Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive examine a narrative too good to not steal, and the author who steals it.
Jacob Finch Bonner was as soon as a promising younger novelist with a respectably printed first guide. Right this moment, he’s educating in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to keep up what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—not to mention printed—something respectable in years. When Evan Parker, his most conceited pupil, proclaims he doesn’t want Jake’s assist as a result of the plot of his guide in progress is a positive factor, Jake is ready to dismiss the boast as typical beginner narcissism. However then . . . he hears the plot.
Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his personal profession and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: nevertheless it by no means comes. When he discovers that his former pupil has died, presumably with out ever finishing his guide, Jake does what any self-respecting author would do with a narrative like that—a narrative that completely must be advised.
In a number of quick years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, however Jake is the writer having fun with the wave. He’s rich, well-known, praised and browse all around the world. However on the peak of his superb new life, an e-mail arrives, the primary salvo in a terrifying, nameless marketing campaign: You’re a thief, it says.
As Jake struggles to grasp his antagonist and conceal the reality from his readers and his publishers, he begins to be taught extra about his late pupil, and what he discovers each amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and the way did he get the concept for his “positive factor” of a novel? What’s the actual story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
From the Writer
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR
On the danger of sounding too meta, how did you provide you with the plot of The Plot?
JEAN HANFF KORELITZ: Like most writers I’m fascinated by plagiarism and the murkiness round inventive appropriation: cooks stealing recipes from different cooks, comedians serving to themselves to different comedians’ jokes, tutorial theft, and above all inventive writers appropriating work by others. I’m hardly the primary novelist to write down about this — there’s a whole sub-genre of Stephen King work on this theme — and it’s not the primary time I’ve touched on it in my very own work, nevertheless it’s the primary time I’ve positioned it entrance and heart in a guide. I feel it is smart to write down concerning the issues that fascinate us.
Whereas penning this guide, it’s essential to have put your self within the sneakers of the principle character. Do you suppose you’d ever steal a genius thought for a guide when you knew it could by no means be used?
I wouldn’t, however solely as a result of I’m squeamish by nature and I’d be terrified about that diploma of publicity and disapproval. However like most artists, I additionally perceive that tales run beneath the bottom of our collective expertise, and all of us dip into them, whether or not we’re conscious of it or not. The actual query is: At what level does a collective story grow to be the person property of an individual or an artist? A contender for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, which brazenly adapts Forster’s Howards Finish to modern New York Metropolis. It is a regular, even laudatory apply, which artists totally perceive. However to assist your self to the precise plot of a lately deceased writer who by no means accomplished his guide? I don’t know the place the road is, precisely, however I’m fairly positive that’s over it.
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