| Forbidden Dreams Fragments of
a Novel in
Progress
By JULES SIEGEL
"I will never part
with my copy." —JOHN LE CARRE
300 typeset 5-1/2 in. by
8-1/2 in. pages with color illustrations. Laser-printed
at 600 dots per inch on 25% cotton-rag acid-free archival
paper; glued and side-sewn and bound in boards covered in
hand-made amate paper Price: To come, by subscription
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MR. LE
CARRÉ IS TALKING ABOUT his copy
of Forbidden Dreams, a book integrating
all my short fiction into a single work covering
the life of Franklin Cornish, the name which all
male protagonists of stories such as "Déjà
Vu" (who are really the same person anyway)
now bear.
As my fans might remember,
Franklin is a commercial artist who wants to be a writer.
Forbidden Dreams is basically a high class hot novel
using the classic spy adventure genre, but with almost no
violence. It is written in a clear, easily accessible style
and has a very strong conventional plot. I have been working
on this book for more than 25 years.
If Vermeer
could have been a Jewish writer in the middle of
the Sexual Revolution, this is how I imagine him
depicting his life. Since he's been dead a long
time, I'm sure he won't mind this.
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