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This article relates to Queen of the Underworld
Gail Godwin published her first novel, The Perfectionists, in about 1970;
since then she's produced 12 novels and a number of short stories, plus her
first volume of memoirs. Her second, and I believe final, volume of
memoirs will be published next year and will cover the years 1963-1970.
She is also working on a novel, The Red Nun.
In an interview, Godwin reveals some of the experiences that inspired Queen of the Underworld, and also
explains why she didn't feel compelled to do any field research while writing
it:
"During the two years I was writing Queen of the Underworld, I could
hardly wait to get to my computer. I loved being 22 and hungry again, with a
22-inch waistline, so desperate to succeed and equally terrified I might fail.
The tension was a stimulant. And I loved re-locating myself in the seductive
Miami scene. People said, "Don't you think you ought to fly down to Miami and
sort of brush up on the locale?" I said, "That's the last thing in the world I
want to do: I want the Miami of 1959 and how I felt, and all those people coming
into town who thought they would be back home in Cuba by the end of the summer."
Read the interview in full.
This article relates to Queen of the Underworld. It first ran in the January 18, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.
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