David Anthony Durham en Interview

[jerome]

David Anthony Durham est en interview dans Locus.

Il évoque sur ses deux premiers romans : Gabriel’s Story et Walk Through Darkness, deux romans historiques.

“I spent three or four years revising those novels I wrote in college and sending them out. I did get an agent and lots of ‘respect,’ but I got lots of rejections at the same time. It was while living in France that, with my wife’s prompting, I stopped revising those old books and instead went on to a new one. Gabriel’s Story is set in the American West in the 1850s, and I wrote it when I was separated from the American landscape that’s so important to that novel. I had done a lot of traveling in the West, a lot of hiking and camping and whitewater stuff. It took me to beautiful areas. Writing about that landscape from afar I had to tap into a store of memories and images that I hadn’t found a place to let out before. It focused my attention.”