The book I was obsessed with during adolescence was The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. They can't get to the rest of normal society.

I think that's why I love to write books about people who are cut off in some way. I can throw 300 balls up in the air and catch 'em at the end.

Around the time I was writing Bel Canto I thought, if everyone thinks I'm writing fairy tales, I'm going to write fairy tales! I think I did sort of turn in that direction.ĪP: What would it really mean to write fairy tales? Oddly, the way in which I think I write fairy tales I'm such a heavily plotted writer. Back when I was young, I thought I was writing these straight-up, realistic books, but the New York Times book review for The Patron Saint of Liars by Alice McDermott said that it was 'a fairy tale, a delight.' Since then, every book I published got viewed through that lens. Mortimer is repped by UTA and Lighthouse Management & Media.Goodreads: State of Wonder reads like a fairy tale in some ways. Goslett is represented by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates. Patchett is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder and Commonwealth. The novel was nominated for the 2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. State of Wonder was published in 2011 by Harper in the U.S. He was previously a producer on MGM’s Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley-fronted Operation Finale and was a director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre. The latter joined the company’s London team earlier this year to work with Williams on its burgeoning slate of high-profile television projects being developed and produced in of the UK. It is being shepherded by eOne’s Head of Scripted – UK, Television Polly Williams and newly-appointed Thomas Daley, VP of Scripted – UK, Television. As Marina embarks upon this uncertain odyssey, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits her in the darkest reaches of the rain forest. In State of Wonder, Dr Marina Singh journeys into the depths of the Amazon rain forest in search of her former mentor, veteran scientist Dr Annick Swenson, who has vanished while conducting research into the prolonged fertility of the women of an isolated Amazonian tribe. Event Series From Emily Mortimer Based On Novel 'State Of Wonder' Set At eOne

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