![]() Virtually no critic could resist mentioning Evans’ advances many also drew comparison with Robert James Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County. The novel got mixed reviews, especially in the US. ![]() While this was happening, his melanoma was removed by surgery and his local bank manager, who had been demanding repayment of his overdraft, called and invited him to lunch. The film rights went to Robert Redford for another $3m because Evans saw Redford in the role of his hero, Tom Booker. He gave the manuscript of the book, half-finished with an outline of the remainder, to his friend the agent Caradoc King, who took it to the 1994 Frankfurt book fair, where it instigated a bidding war.ĭell bought the US rights for $3.15m, Bantam got UK rights for $537,000 and translation deals in Germany and Italy netted another million dollars. “If you set a book in postwar or contemporary Britain, something shrinks,” he said. ![]() ![]() Evans had gone to the US, to meet men who did this, thinking the story needed a western setting. ![]() Evans had begun writing a novel based on a story that he had been told by a Devon blacksmith, who used the term “horse whisperer” to describe someone with a gift for communicating with horses. ![]()
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