{"product_id":"with-child-lee-child-and-the-readers-of-jack-reacher-hardback-9781509538218","title":"With Child; Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher (Hardback) 9781509538218","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWith Child\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndy Martin (Author), Lee Child (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509538218, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"You don’t even have to be a 'Reacher creature' (as the fans are known) to enjoy this sly, fly-on-the-wall take on the blockbuster production line.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a foreword by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Child.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. \u003ci\u003eWith Child\u003c\/i\u003e is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of \u003ci\u003eMake Me\u003c\/i\u003e, the writing of \u003ci\u003eNight School\u003c\/i\u003e at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of \u003ci\u003eNever Go Back\u003c\/i\u003e in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm, amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow writers like Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen.\u003cbr\u003e           \u003cbr\u003eBut Martin also reaches out to Child’s legion of readers in America and around the world. He tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home invasion scene in \u003ci\u003eMake Me\u003c\/i\u003e; he goes up a mountain in Montana in search of the only reader who thinks Reacher is a “lightweight”; and he talks to obsessive fans from Europe to South Africa who find salvation or consolation in the colossal form of Jack Reacher. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis compelling account of life on the road with Lee Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword \u003cp\u003eBefore: ‘A Lot of Writers are Like That, They Start with Dialogue’ Fall\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Gorgeous Feeling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Dearth of the Author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Before Midnight\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Like a Cockroach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Zipless Fuck\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Mysterious\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Pressure Keeps Building\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 I’m not an Author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Having an Orgasm, Standing Up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Stephen King is Shocked\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 A Frustratingly One-Way Telephone Conversation (Except Just at the End)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Attempt at an Exhaustive Description of People at Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Who were Having their Photographs taken with Lee Child\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Deranged, Obsessive Fan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Lunch with Lydia Lair\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 On Tour with Lee Child: Publisher’s Schedule\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Comment on that ‘Gruelling’ Publicity Schedule\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 A Novel without Reacher\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Lee Child’s Ultimate Nightmare\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Inside Fort Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 In the Four Seasons, Washington DC\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Where did you get the Folding Toothbrush from?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Precursors of Reacher\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 How to Say ‘Said’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Is Make me Funny?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Reacher The Reader\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Breakfast, Sunday, 27 September 2015\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 A Binary Praxis of Antagonistic Reciprocity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Back to School\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Can I Help you?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Cup of Tea, With a Side Order of Napkin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 ‘You’re not Going to Believe this, But …’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Jouïssance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 On the First Chapter of Lee Child’s Make me\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 His Dying wish Winter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Carl (1)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Elsa (The Opposite of the Toothbrush)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Man who Refused to Read Make me\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Mamma Mia! (× 5)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Jack Reacher vs Lisbeth Salander\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Carl (2)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Misery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Book Ends\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Sam\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Clueless\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Karina\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Zeno and the Art of the Head-Butt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Reacher vs West Germany\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 But who is Going to Play Lee Child in the Movie?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Two New York Scenes, On the Same Day, Containing Antithetical Reactions to Lee Child\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Ennui\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 The Woman who Hated Reacher\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Tom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Psychosocial Acceleration Theory (Never go back)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 While Reacher Sleeps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Fanmail Spring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 The Fortune Cookie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 Fear and Firearms in Las Vegas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 The Letters Pages of the London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 A Blonde Walks through the Door with a Gun in her Hand\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 The End of that Conversation, In which Lee Compares himself to Homer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Tweets\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 300 Pages, One Insight\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 The Function of Crime\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 Crimethrillergirl\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65 The End of the Novel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter: In Case you Wanted to know What Happened to that Romance with Chang\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441801359640,"sku":"9781509538218","price":33.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509538218.jpg?v=1785026108","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/with-child-lee-child-and-the-readers-of-jack-reacher-hardback-9781509538218","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}