Norfolk

[Mark Kohut]

The FAQ at his website has a great story about how he came to write
the book....after 'getting'an agent at The London Book Fair with a one-page
synopsis BEFORE he had written anything (he lied to her).

Must help explain why England pubbed if first and whole (per LN and
agent's FINAL.)

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:34 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I was lucky enough to find a signed edition ($10!), hardcover, published by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd.
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> Tore Rye Andersen sent me an excellent article about Norfolk that he wrote for Gale's British Writers. According to Andersen, the first American edition was published by Harmony Books, which, at the editor's insistence, was heavily cut. Norfolk at first defended, but later opposed this cut version. Grove Press issued an uncut version in 2003, as a result.
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> Which publisher put out the British version?
> On Oct 22, 2014 12:42 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I was warned away from the American version. It's pretty shocking that such a huge change was made. I guess Norfolk, as a new writer, felt bullied into accepting the cuts. That being said, the tidy ending was probably my least favorite part of the book. But if Norfolk wrote it that way, it belongs there.
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> did you read the US or British edition? A friend told me that the British edition is 150 pages longer and provides a lot of plot answers that the US edition ignores.
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