The title character of Michael Cimino’s debut novel Big Jane is a 19-year-old New York woman who, in 1951, is compelled to travel across the U.S. with a man on a motorcycle. But as the film director told our sister publication The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year, in what was billed as his first interview in 13 years, the reason he has not published the book in English tracks back to Heaven’s Gate:
“I’ve published a couple of short novels in France that I didn’t want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work.”
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