![]() ![]() its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. ![]() he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil it had the same ringing quality. And when I set my mind to work I came up with this particular story.Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. ![]() “I had already written a Buchanesque novel in ‘Waiting for the Sunrise’ and liked the idea of a young man in a predicament,” he said. He said that “The Vanishing Game” was inspired in part by the late John Buchan, the Scottish novelist best known for the thriller “The Thirty-Nine Steps.” The author had little trouble devising a story, citing his background not just with the Bond book, but with movie scripts and a television series he has created and is currently writing, “Spy City,” set in Berlin in the early 1960s. “I have the central character using a Land Rover. Boyd, in turn, said that the Land Rover was an “almost mythic vehicle” when he was growing up in Africa and that he had actually referred to a Land Rover in a novel he had been working on before learning of the current project. Ken Bracht, communications manager for Land Rover North America, said that Boyd was their preferred author early on, “given his popularity, reputation for adventure type stories” and the attention he was receiving at the time for his Bond novel, “Solo,” published in September 2013. It’s a tough world out there for most writers, and anything that keeps them afloat is fine with me.” “That said, I don’t criticize authors who go this road. ![]() ‘I’m Scott Turow and I like using this pen’ - so I can’t imagine what would persuade me to give up control over my work, even in this small way,” Turow wrote in a recent email. “I’ve declined to do direct endorsements of products a couple of times over the years - e.g. Scott Turow, whose best-sellers include “Presumed Innocent” and “The Burden of Proof,” said he couldn’t even “conceive” of working with a sponsor. A recent e-book, Hillary Carlip’s “Find Me I’m Yours,” was funded in part by the makers of Sweet’N Low. Julia Alvarez wrote a poem for Absolut vodka and several authors, including Elmore Leonard and Lisa Scottoline, contributed essays for a 1990s Coca-Cola campaign. In 2001, Fay Weldon was commissioned by Bulgari to write “The Bulgari Connection,” in which she worked in references to the jewelry company. The literary community has mostly shunned commercial endorsements, although there are precedents for Boyd’s book. The Land Rover logo appears at the top of the screen and the occasional word or phrase, such as “river” or “cross country,” links to a picture of a Land Rover or a real-life story about a Land Rover user. If “The Vanishing Game” itself cannot be called “a Land Rover story,” the company provides other reminders. Photographs and moving images provide a backdrop to the words. An audio track features a voiceover and soundtrack music. Boyd’s story can be read as a traditional book, or as an interactive narrative through the dedicated website. ![]()
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