Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One

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Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One

A legend has to start somewhere...

As so many writers have said, itâ€™s in the shorter and mid-length work that the storytelling craft is best learned. Hard-Luck Diggings brings together fourteen such pieces from the first twelve years of Grand Master Jack Vanceâ€™s genre-defining career, from back when he first worked to pay the mortgage, buy the groceries, travel the world, eventually building his own private â€œdream castleâ€ and starting a family.

Like any writer serious about staying in the game, we see him targeting the markets of the day, doing what was needed to meet the tastes of editors and their readerships while at the same time perfecting his own special way of doing things so that his name, his distinctive voice, stood a chance (in modern marketing parlance) of becoming a viable â€œbrand.â€

Hard-Luck Diggings brings that fascinating process to life in fine style. As well as serving up vintage entertainment from one of the fieldâ€™s genuine masters, it provides an illuminating armchair tour of how the Jack Vance enterprise came to be, full of zest and life, the thrill of the upward climb and of so much more to be done. This is a book to be savoured with a twinkle in the eye, a knowing smile, but most of all, with a love of adventure and high romance firmly in place.

Country	USA
Author	Jack Vance
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781596067325
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Subterranean Press
Manufacturer	Subterranean Press
NumberOfPages	296
PublicationDate	2015-03-10
Publisher	Subterranean Press
ReleaseDate	2015-03-10
Studio	Subterranean Press

Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One

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