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Show The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Hillerman Revisits Chee And Leaphorn & Continued from D-1 done ste write, that were harder to but this certainly wasn't easy. I'm glad to be done with it Years ago, in an earlier home Hillerman’s work area rampedhe wouldbelook wall while he was writing. Now, in be zht into thepic Sgt. Chee is bro} ture by this series of events: @For no apparent reason, an AmericanIndian guide is shot and unknown sniperat e Chelly — 300 miles way @ A Washington lawyer, trustee for a “mining mogul’s estate. learns of the skeleton’s discovery and quickly makes Leaphorn an er hecan't refuse MChee's fiancée Janet Pete. he brilliant and beautiful Stanfor School graduate and part Navajo who works as a public defender for the tribe, is caught up in the mystery when her former employer asks ques The plot of The Fallen Manis n npplicat ed in typically Hiller: ion. But this novel n more than the usual trouble phone interview from rque home, the 71- nor explained plot ng with the characters was the complexity that kept tripping me 1p, Se ‘much of the deception de T p the time element. It ike | was always screwing dates, so I'd have to rework ke themfit I've the reservation and half a of working it as a coy Skinwalkers is almost old and there are contemporar tranquil state while, there was a hawk I'd watch. but it seems to have flown the nest. Now I've got a screech owl — a pair of them, as a matter of fact — who flap around thearea about the »ttonwood trees All last summer, when my wife. ie, and I wouldgofor a walk d screech at us erm: Pars as a newspa per re porter hold him in good tead these days. “I usually write in the evening or lateat night. As anold newspaperman I'm noteasily distracted, but I do work on a book better whenit’s quiet So I might work a couple of hours at night and take a break. comeback acoupleof hourslater. But when I'm into a chapter, I work at it until it’s done. I might take a long break of days or weeks to think out the next chapter, to let the pieces of plot and dialogue work their way out. Then thepro- the book. He’s beentothetopsev eral times. He went over the Now that The Fallen Man isa begun to plow ground forthe next mystery. cottonwoods and the of ev Navajo Tribal Police y onin his career,he began experimenting with methods to improvehis research technique, and one that has stuck with him all these years is Joe Leaphorn’s map Published by the Auto Club of Southern California, the AAA mapof Indian Country was a device created for the Leaphorn novels — and carried over when the lieutenant and Jim Chee be- gan sharing adventures in Skin walkers. The mapis popular for into play, ago. ford optione d Te novels for his company. Dark film ito be brought Red plained e Tony understc helped immensel the how to make those otherwise Albuquerque Hillerman mulls “I'm glad to be writing It’s fun elements tha aid With his processor Robert Red lerman Said Hiller that and uggesting adjustments Hell, I've screenplay by James Redford, Robert's son Leaphorn makes notes on the map and uses different-colored its large scale and accuracy. Wit a budget of $14 million the screen adaptationwill gointo production in May on the Navajo Reservation Young Redford. who worked pins to denote ‘information accu. mulated in lifetime of living on for 18 months on the screenpla has nothing but admiration for point to visit the locales he uses in his novels. “If possible I gotoall the places I describe in a book Eventhough. onoccasion, it’s im possible. 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SAVE 50% AND MORE. ee (Delis Conter) (Totes) ha The G an Oxford Press research and Hillerman did the to film YP neces f Istanbu' way of doing detective He doesn't work from outlines Once he has a general notion in mind, he begins to thrash it out chapter by chapter, struggling with characters and plot twists as they pop up. letting his Beyond the actual writing chores, Hillerman makes it a je | turn off T that no book tran _MeKay died | jestermia Gottar Teo || Conteserate Rattoed & Johemy Paycheck Borey’s Big Surprise The Connie | °] tindo Peery h that He also cess starts over again characters speak as naturally as they wouldif they werereal the things dis nything genre. Ros Nov. readied for production with a I If onc been around long enoughto know 11-16 the mark andsub leasedonvideo Now, Skinwalkers is being Lidee Wednesday Nov 13-7:30pm Hootie & The Biowfish oes moves me So Wind earlier mysteric Chee alone wa cast with Li lips as Chee. The StoneTemple | Marsha Ceweatann Utah Symphony Orchestra Tour of Turk tain-climbing scenes, I gave the pages to Bob Rosebrough, the wrap, so to speak, Hillerman has i so cooperative spirit tract and it’s really inspiring. For a havethis “He is done. to ask for an “I Hillerman. said screech owls discipline. lifetim: andsucha gentlemanit's a pleaure to work with him,” Redford pages to make sure I wasright a new home, his office/den has a D5 have. But when I wrote the moun Gallup. NM lawyer whoclimbs for pleasure and who's named in it doesn’t distract his with the discovery of a skeleton gh onaledgebeneath the mono th of Ship Rock Mountain where it has lain, bones picked re by ravens, for 11 years Ex-Lt. Leaphorn provides the nswer to the rock-climber’s iden tity, and his successor, former Rock with Wings’ — the Navajo namefor Ship Rock] as some of the climbers in The Fallen Man Sunday, November 10, 199¢ ay ae Px Pw fen |
