 First edition | |
| Author | Scott Smith |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | August 31, 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 335 pp |
| ISBN | 0-679-41985-3 |
| OCLC | 27187407 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.M5379759 S57 1993 |
A Simple Plan is a 1993 thriller novel by Scott Smith. The New York Times review said the book had "emotional accuracy with an exceptionally skilled plot." A film adaptation, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998; according to the Times review, the novel is so dark that the story was adjusted to soften the ending.[1]
Plot
Three men find an airplane crashed in a rural Northern Ohio forest. The pilot is dead and the cockpit contains a gym bag with $4.4 million in one-hundred-dollar notes. They decide to keep the money, dividing it equally, but their plans go wrong when others come close to discovering their secret, resulting in multiple murders.
Critical reception
In its 1993 review, The New York Times called A Simple Plan a "beautifully controlled and disturbing first novel."[2] The Chicago Tribune described the book as "a tragic journey as compelling, resolute and relentlessly grim as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."[3]
References
- ↑ Kamiya, Gary (July 30, 2006). "Welcome to the Jungle". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ↑ Brown, Rosellen (September 19, 1993). "Choosing Evil". The New York Times.
- ↑ Standiford, Les (August 29, 1993). "THIS 'SIMPLE PLAN' IS AN ALMOST TRAGIC TALE OF PURE GREED". Chicago Tribune.