Brothers (Goldman novel)

Brothers
First edition
Author	William Goldman
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Warner Books
Publication date	1986
Pages	310
ISBN	0-446-51279-6

Brothers is a thriller novel by William Goldman. It is the sequel to his 1972 novel Marathon Man and as of 2015, is Goldman's last novel.

Plot

In the sequel, Doc "Scylla" Levy, brother of Marathon Man's protagonist Babe Levy, survives his stabbing. The plot concerns an effort to instigate World War III by means of simultaneous, worldwide terrorist attacks, which Scylla attempts to stop.^[1]

Background

Goldman later recalled, "I'd written one sequel before, which was Father's Day, and I had this notion that Doc wasn't dead and I thought, 'Shit, I'll bring him back and see what happens.'^[2]

Goldman stopped writing novels after the publication of Brothers:

It was one of those funny things. It just ended. It came as a shock to me. I don't know what happened. My wife left me the next year and that certainly was a change... When I was a novelist - those thirty years - something comes along and hits you and you think, 'Oh my God, that might be interesting,' but I haven't had an idea for that for twenty years now. If I started writing a novel tomorrow it wouldn't shock me because, as we all know, it's all instinctive.^[3]

References

↑ 'Brothers by William Goldman' (Warner: $17.95; 320 pp.) Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 17 May 1987: K6.
↑ Egan p 206
↑ Egan p 212

Egan, Sean, William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller, Bear Manor Media 2014

Works by William Goldman

Plays	Tenderloin (1960) Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961) A Family Affair (1962) Misery (2012)

Novels	The Temple of Gold (1957) Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958) Soldier in the Rain (1960) Boys and Girls Together (1964) No Way to Treat a Lady (1964) The Thing of It Is... (1967) Father's Day (1971; sequel to The Thing of It Is) The Princess Bride (1973) Wigger (1974) Marathon Man (1974) Magic (1976) Tinsel (1979) Control (1982) The Silent Gondoliers (1983) The Color of Light (1984) Heat (1985) Brothers (1986)

Films	Masquerade (1965) Harper (1966) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) The Hot Rock (1972) The Stepford Wives (1975) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Marathon Man (1976) All the President's Men (1976) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Magic (1978) Mr. Horn (1979, TV) Heat (1987) The Princess Bride (1987) Misery (1990) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) Year of the Comet (1992) Chaplin (1992) Maverick (1994) The Chamber (1996) The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Absolute Power (1997) The General's Daughter (1999) Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Dreamcatcher (2003) Wild Card (2015)

Non-fiction	The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969) The Story of 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) Wait Till Next Year (with Mike Lupica, 1988) Hype and Glory (1990) Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000) The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays (2000)

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