J.K. Rowling has a new adult novel that has just been announced by Little Brown Books. For those too lazy to click to the link here's the full press release:
Little, Brown Book Group announces that the new novel for adults by J.K. Rowling is entitled The Casual Vacancy. The book will be published worldwide in the English language in hardback, ebook, unabridged audio download and on CD on Thursday 27th September 2012.
The Casual Vacancy
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
So what can we surmise from this brief description--it's set in England (not) a shocker, somebody dies, there's a war between different factions, someone is trying to make a grab for power--cobbled streets, ancient abbeys, unexpected revelations? Hasn't she covered this ground before? And yes get off my back people this is what snap judgement means based on the information that is being offered. Perhaps the "unexpected revelation" is that a Weasley is running for town council or that Darth Vader is Luke's father---oh wait different story--or is it. Dark Lords, excessive power, coming back from near death, mysterious magical powers--is it Harry Potter or Star Wars? But I digress let's get back to her new adult novel. From what I can surmise it's one of those cute, charming, English countryside set books that reading groups of overweight women and gays will eat up like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Cold Comfort Farm, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, etc., etc. and so on. I can almost guarantee the movie rights to this have probably already been swept up for some ungodly sum (as if she needs it) and it will be turned into a charming movie starring Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith as a smart talking crotchetity old something and probably one of those kids from the Harry Potter movies. I mean Stephanie Meyer did it (and a movie) with her "adult novel" The Host--so why not Rowling?
But who am I kidding--I'll read it along with the rest of you folks--cause you know you will.
Little, Brown Book Group announces that the new novel for adults by J.K. Rowling is entitled The Casual Vacancy. The book will be published worldwide in the English language in hardback, ebook, unabridged audio download and on CD on Thursday 27th September 2012.
The Casual Vacancy
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
So what can we surmise from this brief description--it's set in England (not) a shocker, somebody dies, there's a war between different factions, someone is trying to make a grab for power--cobbled streets, ancient abbeys, unexpected revelations? Hasn't she covered this ground before? And yes get off my back people this is what snap judgement means based on the information that is being offered. Perhaps the "unexpected revelation" is that a Weasley is running for town council or that Darth Vader is Luke's father---oh wait different story--or is it. Dark Lords, excessive power, coming back from near death, mysterious magical powers--is it Harry Potter or Star Wars? But I digress let's get back to her new adult novel. From what I can surmise it's one of those cute, charming, English countryside set books that reading groups of overweight women and gays will eat up like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Cold Comfort Farm, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, etc., etc. and so on. I can almost guarantee the movie rights to this have probably already been swept up for some ungodly sum (as if she needs it) and it will be turned into a charming movie starring Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith as a smart talking crotchetity old something and probably one of those kids from the Harry Potter movies. I mean Stephanie Meyer did it (and a movie) with her "adult novel" The Host--so why not Rowling?
But who am I kidding--I'll read it along with the rest of you folks--cause you know you will.
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