![]() ![]() ![]() The task of course, is to present the twist before giving the facts that lead up to it and still make the surprise thrilling. Deaver says: 'I began to wonder if it was possible for a thriller writer to pull off a backward-told story that was filled with the cliff-hangers, surprises and twists and turns that are, to me, the epitome of good crime fiction. In his foreword, Deaver explains that he became captivated with the idea of reverse chronology after listening to a radio discussion about Stephen Sondheim's musical 'Merrily We Roll Along', which uses the same idea. What's unusual about it? Well, the story is told in reverse - sounds weird, I know! The index begins with chapter thirty-six, the story working back through time over the last two days to the first chapter. Last week, I picked up from the library another novel with an intriguing premise: Jeffery Deaver's 'The October List'. ![]() As a novelist, I'm fascinated by examples of authors stretching the boundaries of what's possible with fiction. A while back, I wrote a post about novels with unusual structures (you can read it here), examining books such as B S Johnson's 'The Unfortunates', which consists of twenty-seven chapters that can be read in any order. ![]()
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