A Simple Plan (novel)

A Simple Plan
	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
Dewey Decimal	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]

Summary

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]

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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" – via NYTimes.com.
Deal, Reviewed by Les Standiford, Director of the creative writing program at Florida International University and author of the forthcoming novel "Done. "THIS `SIMPLE PLAN' IS AN ALMOST TRAGIC TALE OF PURE GREED". chicagotribune.com.

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[1] Kamiya, Gary (July 30, 2006). "Welcome to the Jungle". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2012.

[2] Brown, Rosellen (September 19, 1993). "Choosing Evil" – via NYTimes.com.

[3] Deal, Reviewed by Les Standiford, Director of the creative writing program at Florida International University and author of the forthcoming novel "Done. "THIS `SIMPLE PLAN' IS AN ALMOST TRAGIC TALE OF PURE GREED". chicagotribune.com.