Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margerita inspired (on Mariannes suggestion) Jagger to write the lyrics to Sympathy For The Devil. But The Rolling Stones have inspired prose and novels too. Let's make a map!

U.S.:
Zachery Lazar: Sway (2008)



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Ok; so it's not poetry, but prose.

Ian McEwan quotes from Live With Me in his short story anthology First Love, Last Rites.

I have made a similar thread concerning poetry and poems. It is called "Let’s map poetry and poems influenced by or referring to The Rolling Stones"



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Great Britain:
Ian McEwan: First Love, Last Rites (1975)
Ian Rankin:

U.S.:
Zachery Lazar: Sway (2008)



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If I remember correctly, I think Michael Herr's wonderful book about Vietnam, "Dispatches", name-checks the Stones and quotes some lyrics.

Some things just feel or seem Stones-y, although there is no abvious link. In this category I think of the movie Five Easy Pieces, which is intellectual while being a bit anti-intellectual at the same time, and has a hedonistic, nihilistic point of view.

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Great Britain:
Ian McEwan: First Love, Last Rites (1975)
Ian Rankin:

U.S.:
Zachery Lazar: Sway (2008)

I haven't read that McEwan's book yet. In what way does he refer to The Stones?

Denis Lehane likes to quote the Stones. One of his protagonists Patrick Kenzie, a Boston P.I. loves the Stones.
One of DL's latest books is called "Moonlight Mile". I think it quotes the song too. I like DL's books.

Wilbur Smith - the golden fox ( i believe its called)

the whole first chapter is set during hyde park 69 .
from memory the main characters are front and back stage and it describes the eulogy and the butterflies and honky as the first song , well who would know im yours shes mine ,she yours (or whatever).

Soul Diamond by Robert Nicolas describes a stripper dancing to Charlie's backbeat on Honky Tonk Women.

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Great Britain:
Ian McEwan: First Love, Last Rites (1975)
Ian Rankin:

U.S.:
Zachery Lazar: Sway (2008)

I haven't read that McEwan's book yet. In what way does he refer to The Stones?

I haven't read it I just made a quote from the poetry-thread, where tomcasagranda mentioned it:
"Re: Let’s map poetry or poems influenced by or referring to The Rolling Stones
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Date: February 17, 2012 21:26

Ok; so it's not poetry, but prose.

Ian McEwan quotes from Live With Me in his short story anthology First Love, Last Rites."



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U.S.
Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Vineland (1990) or Inherend vice (2009) (but in which I don't remember)

U.S.
Don DeLillo: Underworld (1997) a chapter with a viewing of %#%¤sucker Blues in fucus.



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Erratum.

I made a mistake, in that Live With Me was quoted within the second short story series by Ian McEwan, entitled "In Between The Sheets". This was published in 1978.

I would also add that Ian McEwan stated that Edward seduced his wife by playing her Rolling Stones and Beatles covers of Chuck Berry numbers from "1962" in On Chesil Beach. While, this is a good reference, a degree of historical inaccuracy has taken place in that the Beatles didn't cover Roll Over Beethoven until 1963, and that Come On wasn't released until 1963 either.

Japan:
Haruki Murakami: 1Q84

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Don DeLillo: Underworld (1997) a chapter with a viewing of %#%¤sucker Blues in fucus.

Was that an intentional typo? Love it.

Tough Jews,l by Rich Cohen!

Many, if not all of Stephen King's older books always seemed to have some Stones quote or reference in one of way or another worked into the story.

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear And Loathing. At the end he is listening to ya ya's and is quoting the introduction is everybody ready and all that. As well as some lines from love in vain if I remember right and of course listening to sympathy at the beginning with dr gonzo. Great book.

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If I remember correctly, I think Michael Herr's wonderful book about Vietnam, "Dispatches", name-checks the Stones and quotes some lyrics.

Some things just feel or seem Stones-y, although there is no abvious link. In this category I think of the movie Five Easy Pieces, which is intellectual while being a bit anti-intellectual at the same time, and has a hedonistic, nihilistic point of view.

Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now were based on Herr's Dispatches.
I don't think it's wonderful book, though.

How about
"Zoe" by Dirk Wittenborn?

Jay McInerney interviewed Mick Jagger for ESQUIRE MAGAZINE around the time McInerney's novel BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY was the literary sensation of the 80's. McInerney said (paraphrase from memory), "When Jagger and I met, he told me he had read my novel, which made me very pleased. And then he asked me, `Where did you get the title for your Goddamned book?' I told Jagger, `I got it from an old Stones bootleg on which the Stones play the Jimmy Reed tune, `Bright Lights, Big City.'"

So this novel's title was inspired by...


...this Stones recording:

Incidentally, elsewhere McInerney said that, as a teenager, his fantasy was to grow up to be "a combination of Ernest Hemingway and Keith Richards."