Sara Gran breaks out

Well, not yet, but she’s certainly being situated to do so very soon:

Sara Gran’s DOPE, a genre-bending exploration of noir that takes us

deep into the hellish heroin culture of New York in the 1950s,

described as “Patricia Highsmith meets William Burroughs,” to Dan

Conaway at Harper, by Simon Lipskar at Writers House (NA).

Harper also acquired reprint rights to the author’s previous novel,

COME CLOSER, from Soho Press paperback, which is being jointly

developed for film by Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s new company and

Disney, with a script by Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove).

I’d already heard some rumblings about this book as the UK deal (with Atlantic) was reported first. And COME CLOSER, which was a creepy, utterly unnerving psychological thriller, was a marvel. I’d wondered what Gran was working on next, and hopefully it won’t be too long before DOPE is in stores.

Interestingly, Lipskar and Conaway are developing into quite the team, as they are jointly responsible for Michael Gruber (TROPIC OF NIGHT and VALLEY OF BONES) as well.