The Seven Who Fled
by Frederic Prokosch
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Author: Frederic ProkoschEdition: Paperback
Published: 1984-01
ISBN: 0374518319
Number of pages: 479
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
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Book Review: What Harlan Ellison has said about this novel...
Summary: 5 Stars
In a recent interview, the amazing writer Harlan Ellison says this, and his word is good enough for me:
"My favorite book in the world is The Seven Who Fled, by Frederic Prokosch. You can get one off Amazon in any number of editions.
"It's a novel about seven people fleeing a Chinese warlord across the Gobi desert.
"And there is one section near the beginning, in a chapter called "Layeville," who is one of the characters, where he describes the desert.
"And it is the most mesmerizing writing I have ever read. And there is a flow to it, because Prokosch was also a poet. And this was the Harper Prize novel, I think in 1933, or '34, something like that.
"And it was not his first novel--his first novel was The Asiatics--but it was his second. And for someone that young to write that brilliantly sets a mountaintop for people such as I to aspire to.
"And you cannot--I will take that book with me when I do writers' workshops, and I will read them just that one section. It's not much, it's about a page.
"And I say, "When you can write like that, then I will bow down and I will kiss the hem of your garment." So."
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