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Title	Jasper Fforde interview
Interviewee	Fforde, Jasper
Interviewer	Martinson, Connie
Book Title	The well of lost plots
Subject	Libraries - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Books and reading - Fiction Women detectives - Great Britain - Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature - Fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) - Fiction
Description	Jasper Fforde discusses his book, “The Well of Lost Plots.” He begins by explaining the plot of the novel, which follows the heroine Thursday Next, who is a detective who specializes in cases involving the protection of the plots and characters of well-known books, which are affected and altered by people in the real world. In this book, the third in a series, Thursday must investigate her husband’s disappearance. Fforde goes on to discuss some of the famous characters that make appearances in the book such as Ms. Havisham from “Great Expectations” and explain in great detail the world that he has created within the series. Also in this interview he discusses major influences on his work such as Charles Dickens and “Alice in Wonderland.” Later he shares how he enjoys playing with grammar and sentence structure when he writes.
Publisher	The Drucker Institute
Language	eng
Source	Betacam tape.
Collection	Connie Martinson Talks Books - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cmt
Rights	All rights are retained by The Drucker Institute. For permission to use this item, contact The Drucker Institute, http://www.thedruckerinstitute.com
Type	Moving Image
Format	video/f4v
Duration	00:14:42
Object File Name	cmt00319_0002

Jasper Fforde interview

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