The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

Everyone knows John Frankenheimer's controversial 1962 film starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury, even though it was taken out of circulation for twenty-five years after JFK's assassination and everyone will see Jonathan Demme's 2004 remake starring Denzel Washington and produced by Scott Rudin (The Hours), but these days too few have read the best-selling novel on which the movie was based. Originally published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is a terrifying political thriller featuring Sergeant Raymond Shaw, ex-prisoner of war, Medal of Honor winner, American hero . . . and brainwashed political assassin. Writing in 2002, Greil Marcus called the novel 'An unusual kind of success... It was simultaneously a best-seller and a cult book, casual reading for the public and the subject of hushed conversations among sophisticates: could this really happen?... The story would lodge in the nations psyche and stay there.'

Original.. A breathlessly up-to-date thriller * The New York Times *
An exciting, brilliantly told story ... crammed with suspense, humor, horror, satire, sex and intrigue * Chicago Tribune *
an idiosyncratic novel, driven on by an original starting point rather than conventional plot structures -- Kohinoor Sahota * Guardian: 1000 novels everyone must read *
Shocking, tense ... A high-grade adventure-suspense * San Francisco Chronicle *
Brilliant ... wild and exhilarating * The New Yorker *

Richard Condon came to fiction late, writing his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), when he was 42, having previously served in the US Merchant Navy and then in the film industry for 20-odd years. "I am considered a compulsive writer because I spend a seven-hour day and a seven-day week at the typewriter," Condon once confessed. After moving to Paris in the 1950s, Condon lived with his family in Spain, Ireland, and Switzerland. He died in Dallas on April 9, 1996.

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ISBN 13	9781874061083
ISBN 10	1874061084
Title	The Manchurian Candidate
Author	Richard Condon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2004-10-21
Number of pages	320
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