Martin Cruz Smith
|
|
 |
|
Martin Cruz Smith - has the following books at our site "I was determined not to write another Russian book after "Gorky Park." I was offered the chance to write the screenplay and I turned that down, which was a foolish thing to have done. But I felt that I had done my Russian book. Later it occurred to me that that was like saying I've done my piano recital. As if there were no other tunes. Of course when I came upon "Polar Star" ... I couldn't get back into Russia for awhile. I had a bad odor. I've seen a book that was issued to all Soviet citizens traveling abroad, warning them against engaging socially with any of these agent provocateurs, including Martin Cruz Smith. In fact, you could get sent away for a couple of years for possessing "Gorky Park." There was a certain kind of perverse allure. I did get on a Soviet factory ship, but the political commissar caught up with me and had me subtracted from the ship's crew. But the idea of this small island of Russia floating out there in the Bering Sea and operating in the fisheries of America was just too delicious." |