ITW de John Barnes

[jerome]

Vous vous souvenez peut-être de La mère des tempêtes ou Le Vin des dieux de John Barnes.

Dans une interview publiée dans le prochain Locus, il explique être en train de travailler sur un nouveau roman :

“My next project is a book that took me a long time to write. It's a mainstream YA, Tales of the Madman Underground, set in small-town Ohio of the 1970s, and I hasten to add it's not terribly autobiographical, though there are things swiped from my life and the lives of my friends. One of the odd things that happened in those days was that school psychiatry was kind of new and teachers decided who went to group counseling. It would be there in your file that you'd been in group counseling the year before, so the minute you did something weird, your teachers would send you back into it. The result was that once you were in group therapy, you were in forever. I think I was a messed up enough kid that I probably belonged there, but there were plenty of kids who didn't. They paid school shrinks almost nothing, so the therapists would change three, four, five times a year. So my novel centers around this bunch of kids dealing with constantly rotating shrinks, and with caring for the people in the group who really do need help and can't get it anywhere except from the other troubled kids. With the stigma of mental illness still severe at that time, your best friends are people you can't admit are your friends. "


tout le reste est ici :
http://www.locusmag.com/2007/Issue02_Barnes.html