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	Alex Garland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British novelist, the son of the well-known and respected political cartoonist, Nick Garland.
		Previous to writing The Coma, Garland was reputed to have suffered from a writer's block, although he disputes this, suggesting that he simply had other concerns.
		Garland wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle's 2003 movie 28 Days Later set in a post-apocalyptic England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Garland (415 words)

	Alex Garland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Garland writes in a clear, direct style that he says comes from comic strips, films, and soap operas -- a style of short sentences and pure momentum that couldn't be further from the complex ironies and syntactical twirls of writers such as Martin Amis or Julian Barnes.
		Garland seems a little baffled by questions about his literary technique, giving the impression that the book almost wrote itself: "All I knew was that I wanted to set in on a beach," and that "I wanted it to be an anti-travel book.
		Garland stresses that his concern with a clear, direct style "isn't me, as it were." It's something he's picked up from other writers.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/books/97/03/27/GARLAND.html (1080 words)

	The Tesseract - Alex Garland - Penguin Group (USA)
		Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his extraordinary talents as a novelist in this Chinese puzzle of a novel about three intersecting sets of characters in the Philippines.
		Garland is a wizard of time manipulation...What’s remarkable about THE TESSERACT is the way it traces the people and events that converge in the center of this deadly web...the complexity here is fascinating rather than baffling....This is a novel based on the physics of disaster....
		Garland is a master at capturing that elastic moment before tragedy rips through the surface of ordinary life.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1573227749,00.html (1604 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Alex Garland: Coma chameleon
		Garland recalls how, after he wrote his second novel, The Tesseract, a far more complex and demanding narrative set in Manila, he was sat down by an editor in America who said: 'Look, Alex, your strength is young people, backpackers in search of Utopia.
		Garland had become a novelist a bit by accident, The Beach had grown quickly out of a comic book he had been drawing, and suddenly it felt too much like a career choice.
		Garland was very keen to make the novel a collaborative effort, in part because he had enjoyed that experience when working on the screenplay for the film 28 Days later with Andrew Macdonald and Danny Boyle, who also directed the film of The Beach.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1248127,00.html (1160 words)

	Alex Garland - author of The Beach
		Alex Garland was born in London, England, in 1970.
		The son of cartoonist Nick Garland, he drew in the expectation that his passion would somehow develop into a career; but as his projects became more ambitious - his last was 54 pages - he became frustrated by the time they took.
		Garland is right, The Beach is a rattling good yarn, a story, told in brief cinematic scenes, about the dreams and destructiveness of Western travellers in Thailand.
	www.thaistudents.com /thebeach/alexgarland.html (709 words)

	Review \| The Coma by Alex Garland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Garland followed his debut up with The Tesseract, an inexplicably condemned novel that explored circumstance and coincidence, painted a percolating mosaic of the Philippines, and hinted at a deeper human intimacy germinating in Garland's gourd.
		Alex Garland's third novel is 200 pages, but this has been achieved only because the book has been split into three parts, with woodblock illustrations by noted cartoonist Nicholas Garland (Alex's dad).
		Alex Garland is in a position that most writers dream of.
	www.janmag.com /fiction/thecoma.html (711 words)

	Alex Garland
		Still under 30 years old and already with two best-selling and critically acclaimed works of fiction to his credit, Alex Garland is an easy target for the legions of reporters and critics with failed screenplays in their file cabinets.
		The Tesseract, Garland's second novel, is not as viscerally engaging as its predecessor, yet it is a subtle, nuanced character-driven piece that further illustrates Garland's enviously sparse prose and knack for recreating exotic settings.
		Garland is clearly a writer to watch as we continue to homogenize the globe at both great benefit and unknown expense.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /garland.html (465 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| It cuts both ways
		Alex's "fierce interest" in graphic art was kindled by watching his father work, and reading the 1950s and 1960s comic strips lying around the house.
		Neither is quite able to say in which side of their work they are most at home, although Alex says it's in the woodcuts that his father attains "genius videogame player or concert pianist level", and judges himself less able a screenwriter than a novelist.
		Alex was at university by the time his parents separated.
	portal.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=RRXOERYS5ZSB5QFIQMGCM54AVCBQUJVC?xml=/arts/2004/06/12/bogar11.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/06/13/bomain.html (2042 words)

	On "The Beach" with Alex Garland
		That's when the movie version of Garland's "The Beach" is released along with a new edition of the novel, sporting a cover shot of mega-star Leonardo diCaprio, who plays the film's semi-autobiographical lead role.
		Which is what irks Garland, whose first novel has been written off my many Asian critics as a one-dimensional look at the region by an uniformed outsider.
		Nevertheless, the very backpackers that Garland parodies in "The Beach" have hailed him as a spokesman for a lifestyle that he rejected long ago.
	www.thaistudents.com /thebeach/garland3.html (816 words)

	Alex Garland The Coma Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Alex Garland manages to get out of his own way and stay out of his own way in the clever and chilling short novel 'The Coma'.
		Garland's surreal juxtapositions of time and space, the lacunae that Carl experiences serve to remind the reader of how precious and fragile our sense of self is. In many ways, this book is the rather safer equivalent of experiencing a particularly bad but mundane drug-induced hallucination.
		Garland knows how to prick the skin and send a chill deep into the reader's sense of self.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/garland-the_coma.htm (1019 words)

	Alex Garland's three-ring geometry problem
		And though Garland is to be applauded for trying to have form be as pivotal as content, it's not all that revolutionary to advance the premise that fate is random and chance can be a defining moment.
		Tension is tantamount as Garland fluidly segues from character to character, some in the throes of danger, others witness to it.
		As she -- not to mention Garland -- lovingly tends to domesticity, she thinks back to her own childhood in a barrio where there was scant electricity, little fresh water and no phone lines.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/06/13/tesseract.html (1031 words)

	Alex Garland (The University of Manchester) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Alex Garland graduated from The Victoria University of Manchester with a BA (Hons) in History of Art in 1992.
		Biography: Novelist Alex Garland was born in London in 1970 and graduated from The Victoria University of Manchester with a BA (Hons) in History of Art in 1992.
		Alex went on to write the screenplay 28 Days Later (2002), also directed by Danny Boyle, the critically acclaimed novel The Tesseract (2003) and The Coma (2004).
	www.manchester.ac.uk /aboutus/factsandfigures/distinguishedalumni/alexgarland (232 words)

	Alex Garland - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Alex Garland wrote the perfect Generation X book with "The Beach".
		Garland has as strong of a narrative voice as Charles Dickens in "David Copperfield", and I would venture to say that he is a better editor of his own work than Dickens.
		Garland's narrative style flows incredibly well, his characters are always complicated and interesting, and his desriptions are vivid and beautiful.
	www.rateitall.com /i-13138-alex-garland.aspx (520 words)

	Review: The Tesseract by Alex Garland
		These are the pieces of the story that Alex Garland tells in "The Tesseract." Garland, a 28-year-old British writer, showed promise with his first novel, The Beach, earning praise from J.G. Ballard and comparisons to Graham Greene and Hemingway.
		His father, Nicholas Garland, is a well-known cartoonist, so perhaps he learned simple language, strong visuals, and quick editing at his dad's knee the same way Ken Griffey Jr.
		Garland writes with sophistication about exotic lands where misery and beauty live side by side - destinations you'd like to visit, or have returned from.
	www.southerncurrents.com /misc/b_garl.htm (757 words)

	Read/WriteWeb: The Coma - Alex Garland
		Alex Garland, if you don't know his work, wrote a famous novel called The Beach in the 90's.
		Garland's second novel was called The Tesseract and was set in the Philippines.
		So this is Garland's third novel (although as I said, it's more of a novella).
	www.readwriteweb.com /archives/the_coma_alex_g.php (294 words)

	Alex Garland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Screenwriter Alex Garland is hard at work on a few rewrites for his screenplay.
		The screenplay, written by Alex Garland ("28 Days Later"), is apparently up to the highest bidder -- although New Line, DreamWorks, and Sony have already passed on the project.
		Microsoft is close to finalizing terms with writer Alex Garland to script a film based upon the "Halo" video games, Variety reports.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/alex_garland/news.php (1192 words)

	The Cult - ChuckPalahniuk.net
		Alex Garland: It's a sci-fi script, currently titled 'Sunshine', about a spaceship on a mission to the sun.
		Garland: Well, in 28 Days Later, it was really to facilitate a lift from Day of the Triffids - where a guy goes into hospital and the world is normal, then comes out and everything is turned on its head.
		Garland: For the last few years, I have taken to writing down a first story outline on a single sheet of A4 paper.
	www.chuckpalahniuk.net /features/interviews/alexgarland (2290 words)

	The Beach - Alex Garland - Penguin Group (USA)
		Just as impressively, Garland has written what may be the first novel about the search for genuine experience among members of the so-called X Generation that’s not snide or reflexively cynical.
		Garland’s timeless fluid sentences seem to seek the clarity that Hemingway sought, without descending into self-parody for an instant....The book concludes perfectly, with an image as confusingly beautiful as modern primitivism gets....Garland’s deceptively transparent book would have been just as momentous and refreshing if it had been written 20 years ago.
		“Garland is a wonder; he’s able to write unrelentingly suspenseful, downright hallucinatory action scenes, then balance them with passages of chillingly accurate psychology.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1573226521,00.html?sym=SYN& (1295 words)

	Salon \| Beach boy
		He's written what may be the first novel about the endless quest for genuine experience among members of the so-called Generation X -- twentysomethings weaned on video games, TV and a decade's worth of pop detritus -- that's not snide or reflexively cynical.
		He began writing fiction, he says, not from compulsion but because of his panicked awareness that his friends were settling into careers and he wasn't.
		A committed traveler who has spent a good deal of time in Southeast Asia, Garland is currently at work on his second novel.
	www.salon.com /feb97/alex970211.html (1483 words)

	Amazon.com: Beach, The: Books: Alex Garland,Michael Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Garland is a good storyteller, though, and Richard's nicotine-fueled narrative of how the denizens of the beach see their comity shatter and break into factions is taut with suspense, even if the bloody conclusion offers few surprises.
		Alex Garland's writing is razor-sharp and indicative of his amazing storytelling talent.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561008176?v=glance (1871 words)

	Alex Garland at Salon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Alex Garland, articles 1 - 13 of 14 << 1 2 >>
		Alex "The Beach" Garland spins a chiller about a man waking from a coma, Colm Toibin explores the tragic sensibility of Henry James, and Geoff Nicholson gives us English people being very bad.
		Alex Garland's astonishing first novel echoes "Dog Soldiers" and "Lord of the Flies" in its discovery of the hell that lurks in paradise.
	dir.salon.com /topics/alex_garland (372 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Alex Garland, The Beach
		The characters of Alex Garland's The Beach delude themselves that utopia is attainable and subvert the principles of rational thinking on which their utopia is built.
		The characters are willing to ignore the oppressive elements of their surroundings, and this is aided by their continual drug use, one of their only forms of "escape" from the community they are part of, which is supposed to be close to perfect.
		He thought it to be "'The worst case scenario'" (Garland 232) because he might be expelled the island.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A618400 (1544 words)

	Alex Garland \| ABCtales.com
		I wonder if Boyle was making it up to Garland for that when he used him as a scriptwriter on "28 Days Later".
		So my lasting impression of Alex Garland has always been that he's a really ambitious young writer but without the talent/editing skills to back it up.
		Garland, on the other hand, sounds like he's milking it a bit.
	www.abctales.com /node/9915 (526 words)

	book review - The Tesseract Alex Garland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		I saw Alex Garland at an event that was part of the Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival not long after "The Tesseract" had been published.
		It's a highly complicated structure for a narrative, like the tesseract itself (a hypercube unravelled) and it shows great courage on the part of Alex Garland that he even began to tackle it.
		Garland is frighteningly talented and a true craftsman of words and the fact that The Tesseract holds together and concludes with such confidence and vigour is proof of the fact.
	www.fiction-net.co.uk /review-thetesseract.htm (488 words)

	Mörquendi: Return of the Bookmeme - Alex Garland
		Alex Garland's 'The Beach' which was later turned into a below-average movie of the same name by a good director (Danny Boyle, who did the cult classic 'Trainspotting').
		If it hadn't been for Alex Garland and 'The Beach' I'd never have been to half the places I've been to or seen half the things I've done or seen half the things I've seen.
		It was Alex Garland's new book 'The Coma' which is a very short but very intense read.
	morquendi.blogspot.com /2005/06/return-of-bookmeme-alex-garland.html (783 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Tesseract: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Garland shows a talent for finely crafted phrases that emboss an image and encapsulate a moment.
		Close to the gripping read that was 'The Beach', Garland's second bestseller shares the originality and deepness portrayed beforehand.
		Acknowledged is the difficulty the young author faced as he aimed to reiterate the sheer quality of 'The Beach'.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670870161 (711 words)

	Beach (Alex Garland) - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Garland's descriptions paint a beautiful picture and the predominance of dialogue make this a quick and easy read.
		Alex Garland did a great job in writing this book, however, it reminded me too much of Lord of the Flies.
		While some of the praise this book has received ("The best book ever written by someone under 30") is a little ridiculous, Garland does a good job of developing likable, believable characters, and painting a picture of a garden of eden gone wrong.
	www.rateitall.com /i-18069-beach-alex-garland.aspx (392 words)

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