Marathon Man (novel)

Marathon Man
First edition
AuthorWilliam Goldman
Cover artistPaul Bacon[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreConspiracy thriller
PublisherDelacorte Press
Publication date
1974
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages309 pp
ISBN0-440-05327-7
OCLC940709
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.G635 Mar PS3557.O384
Followed byBrothers 

Marathon Man is a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman. It was Goldman's most successful thriller novel, and his second suspense novel.[2]

In 1976 it was made into a film of the same name, with a screenplay by Goldman, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider and directed by John Schlesinger.

  1. ^ Modern first editions – a set on Flickr
  2. ^ D'Ammassa, Don. Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction. Infobase Publishing, 2009. 139. Retrieved from Google Books on January 31, 2012. ISBN 0-8160-7573-5, ISBN 978-0-8160-7573-7.