How ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ Became a Surprise Best Seller - The New...
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How a Novel About Video Games Became a Surprise Best Seller
Gabrielle Zevin didn’t expect a wide audience for “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” her novel about game developers. It became a blockbuster with staying power.
Five and a half years ago, Gabrielle Zevin was in a slump. She had recently published her ninth novel, and sales were sluggish.
She needed a distraction, so she turned, as she often does, to video games. But when she tried to play the adventure game Gold Rush, she discovered that the version she had played obsessively as a kid no longer existed. It felt like a chapter of her childhood had been erased. “This part of my life was gone,” she said.
An earlier version of this article misstated the number of novels Gabrielle Zevin had already published when she conceived of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” It was nine, not eight.
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Alexandra Alter writes about publishing and the literary world. Before joining The Times in 2014, she covered books and culture for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, she reported on religion, and the occasional hurricane, for The Miami Herald. @xanalter
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