Writers Who Read #40
3 April 2022
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Author/Publisher Intent
Stylistic Choices
Structure, Pacing
Climax - what changed?
Scene sleuthing
The Promise - Damon Galgut
- Marketing: Family Saga Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Genre: Recent Historical Archplot Longform
- Print Pages: 256
- Word count: 84,068; Avg. wds/sent.: 11.87
- Reading Level: Grade 7; Lexical Density: 45.07
- Flesch Reading Ease: 76.91
- POV: Omniscient; Person: 3rd; Tense: Present
- Publish date: April 6, 2021
- Publisher: Europa Editions
- Sold By: Europa Editions
- Audio book narr.: Peter Noble (9 hrs: 37 mins)
- Awards 2021 Booker Prize
- About Damon Galgut
- Writes longhand on notebooks for first two complete drafts, then transfers it to the computer
- The Promise
- - Primary motivation: Depicting time and the passage of time
- - Secondary inspiration: Friend who related stories of four funerals
- Other books
- - 1st novel @ age 17
- - 9 novels: The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room shortlisted for Booker Prize
- - 4 plays
Novel Countour Map
POV
Epigraph
Pa's Funeral
Around the Table
Always refer back to the book
Favorite Sentence?
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