We Never Talk About My Brother by Beagle Peter S

Author:Beagle, Peter S. [Beagle, Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Conlan Press
Published: 2015-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

THE LAST AND ONLY,

OR,

MR. MOSCOWITZ BECOMES FRENCH

In one way this is the oldest story in the book; and in another, one of the newest. My memory is that I started it in the late 1960s, when my family and I had settled into our first house with real central heating, which was located in farming country just outside Watsonville, California. I sent an early version off to my agent, Elizabeth Otis, in New York, and in so doing initiated a sputtering cycle of rewrites and rejections that went on quietly in the background for a couple of years. By that time I’d stumbled into screenwriting, and for the next decade I largely abandoned prose fiction while in hot pursuit of the first serious money I’d ever seen. “The Last and Only” languished in my battered, dangerous filing cabinet until well past the turn of the new century, when Connor Cochran—once more exploring the dark continent of that cabinet with gun and camera—came across it and asked me to try again from a slightly different angle. What happened next was the oddest collaboration I’ve ever experienced, in which one of the two writers at the table was a younger, hairier me whom I didn’t always recognize and only barely remembered.

It often happens that stories have to wait a very long time for the author to catch up with what they already know. But usually not this long.

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