The Man Who Left Too Soon

The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson

Barry Forshaw, Stanley McGeagh, Stewart Bell

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English

ABC
28 August 2011

Biography: arts & entertainment; Humanities

His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success.

That his fame is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star has risen. However, when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it becomes clear that Larsson's life would have been remembered as extraordinary, even if his Millennium trilogy had never been published.

Larsson was a workaholic: a keen political activist, photographer, graphic designer, a respected journalist and editor of numerous science fiction magazines ... and at night, to relax after work, he wrote crime novels. As the world now knows, he had completed his third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by the time of his death at just 50 years of age.

In The Man Who Left Too Soon, top crime fiction journalist Barry Forshaw gives us a fascinating insight into the life and works of this difficult, brilliant and multifaceted man.

By: Barry Forshaw
Producer: Stewart Bell
Read by: Stanley McGeagh
Imprint: ABC
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781743100493
ISBN 10: 1743100493
Publication Date: 28 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson

Forshaw identifies as the key element to the novels' success the emotional connection between Lisbeth and Mikael Blomkvist, rather than the nigh-operatic outbursts of violence and massively labyrinthine plotting . Here he comes close, I think, to explaining their extraordinary popularity. -- The Daily Telegraph