Cronenberg to Author First Novel!
Director David ('Videodrome', 'Scanners') Cronenberg is writing his first book! Unfortunately it's not a memoir. According to The Independent , Cronenberg sold the novel to Fourth Estate for a five-figure sum! Cronenberg's famous for his preoccupation with the human body, and the plot of this book definitely sounds like it will follow that line of thought.
Entitled Consumed, the novel will follow "a married couple, who are investigative journalists working on two separate stories. The wife is in Paris, delving into a bizarre crime where a woman has been killed and possibly eaten, and whose husband has also apparently disappeared.
The journalist's husband is elsewhere in Europe, writing about a new treatment for cancer devised by a renegade doctor. His unorthodox methods involve planting radioactive nodes near the cancerous cells."
Cronenberg's already written the first 40 pages, and apparently they hold that same strange balance of humor and unease that all of his films carry! Is it just me, or is this weird and awesome news?
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