Sometimes when you spend a lot of time doing one thing, like writing and talking about hockey for instance, when others try and appropriate that landscape in their own writing, especially in a fictional setting, there’s a tendency to be unduly critical.īy the end of “Beartown,” I couldn’t wait to tell not just my friends in hockey about the book but also complete strangers because it was, well, true and right and pretty much perfect. Had someone mentioned it to me because it had a hockey theme?Īll I know is I had this new book that I began reading with a healthy dose of skepticism.
I bought Backman’s novel “Beartown” in May of 2017. He’s got a new novel coming out in the fall called “Anxious People” about a bank robber and a rabbit (or something like that). One of his books, “A Man Called Ove” was made into a popular movie and there’s currently a cable television mini-series being filmed of his other works. Five of those books have ended up on the New York Times Best Seller list. But it did allow him to hone a particular quality that would make him attractive to local newspapers and magazines and that was his willingness to work for free.Īnd that is how, at least on one level, Backman became an international best-selling author with 5 million copies of his books in print in 40 different countries. And he did have to work all kinds of crazy weekend hours driving that forklift. It wasn’t the first time he’d imposed on that friend for things like employment. In order to make it work financially, he imposed on a close friend for a weekend job driving a forklift in a big produce warehouse in Stockholm.
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