- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (5 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000651278X
- ISBN-13: 978-0006512783
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,398,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘A fascinating novel. Utterly compelling and wonderfully authentic.’ William Boyd
‘A wonderfully evocative novel about Hollywood in the 1950’s, one that captivates… Bryan Forbes has captured an era, an industry, a very unique ‘company’ town and all its diverse players, and he has done so with unerring precision. A page turner’
Barbara Taylor Bradford
‘A splendidly evocative novel… . This dark love story of obsession and passion has a great cast of colourful characters and a fascinating plot decorated with much authentic detail. This is an immensely enjoyable read.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Forbes’ astute eye for period detail and characterisation keeps the action rippling along as we follow our hero on his wry everyman quest in the technicolour style of a Tinseltown musical blockbuster.’ The Scotsman
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The price of a soul, or cost of success, for a hero in Hollywood.
Robert Peterson, encouraged by easy words and the success of one novel, is a Hollywood innocent. His first lessons are harsh; pornographic films with a waiter’s job to pay the rent seem the only option. Then he meets a powerful, eccentric British producer who, liking a Svengali role, adds Robert to his stable of wannabes. But there is a price…
Bryan Forbes’ powerful new novel is filled with great characters. The women in Robert’s life include the wholly ambitious, sexy Amanda; the domesticated Tracey with the morals of an alleycat; the beautiful, empty Lauren, whom only the camera defines. And the men who teach him the lessons of life include a knife-throwing English director more histrionic than his stars, the agents, double-dealing in wives and clients, and the fellow script writers with strange secrets.
Who could live in the middle of all this scheming ambition and survive?
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Format:Hardcover
Bryan Forbes' novel is filled with dramatic incident, authentic Hollywood details and a great cast of characters. The theme of the novel is the corruption of the innocent, written with Bryan Forbes' unique inside knowledge of the film industry ~ Bryan is married to actress Nanette Newman, they have two daughters, jouranlist Sarah Standing, and TV presenter Emma Forbes (Clempson)
Format:Paperback
A fictionised version of real world happening in Hollywood with all its ups, downs and dipicting how chutzpah wins over humbleness. gripping from start to finish, With very lucid and fluent language, giving a largely acceptable dipiction of a new entrants mentality from youth till a matured adult with all the important experiences and lessons that he learns thrown in. A real nice journey of Hollywood.
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