Now, as Rachman promotes his equally raved-about second book, "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers," he says Pitt's company wrote a screenplay for the first novel but "decided it didn't work as a film." Pitt's production company, Plan B, optioned the rights to the critically heralded story about a group of journalists when it became an international bestseller and made the Scotiabank Giller Prize long list in 2010. It's impossible not to like-this is masterful stuff.TORONTO - Brad Pitt is no longer involved, but Vancouver-raised novelist Tom Rachman still has a screen deal for his smash debut effort, "The Imperfectionists." Even if you've never set foot in a newsroom, "The Imperfectionists "proves a delight. He's that good."-"The Plain Dealer " "Deftly written and sharply observed.
Rachman delivers word portraits with all the verisimilitude of some of those masters hanging in the museums of Rome. Funny, poignant, occasionally breathtaking." -"Financial Times" "Superb. Slowly, the separate strands become entwined and the line characters have drawn between their work and home lives is erased. a splendid original, filled with wit and structured so ingeniously that figuring out where the author is headed is half the reader's fun."-Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "Each chapter is so finely wrought that it could stand alone as a memorable short story. The novel is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching."-Christopher Buckley, "The New York Times Book Review" "Marvelous. could have acquired such a precocious grasp of human foibles. I still haven't answered that question, nor do I know how someone so young. "Spectacular."-"The New York Times" "Magnificent."-"Seattle Post Intelligencer" "Beguiling."-"The Washington Post" "So good I had to read it twice simply to figure out how he pulled it off.
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