Marlon Brando Novel Published

Posted on August 7, 2005

Oscar-winning actor Marlon Brando will now become a published author after his death. The Guardian reports that a pirate adventure novel Brando co-wrote with Donald Cammell thirty years ago called, Fan Tan, will be published this September. Knopf is the U.S. publisher of the novel. Publishers Weekly has given the book a very favorable review:

Throw in a typhoon, a double-cross, a scorching sex scene, hand-to-hand combat and a mad break for freedom, and enthralled readers will be swinging from the rigging along with the rest of the pirates in this rollicking high-seas saga.

The Guardian says the lead character in the novel is overweight as Brando was in the 1970s at the time of the novel's writing.