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Close-Up by Len Deighton (2019, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100008373957

ISBN-139780008373955

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038208383

Product Key Features

Book TitleClose-Up

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Crime, Humorous / Black Humor, Thrillers / Espionage

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction

AuthorLen Deighton

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Reviews'Immense skill... a stylish and stimulating performance' The Times 'The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing world of the films with its parties, its highly coloured characters... The power of the book is undoubted' The Standard 'The film industrry is in many ways the ideal subject for Mr Deighton's talents' Times Literary Supplement 'Deighton's greatest novel, and I haven't forgotten his epic Bomber. If Deighton never puts pen to paper again, his place is secure among the world's top ten modern novelists.' Whitefriar

Dewey Edition18

Dewey Decimal823/.9/1

SynopsisDeighton's incendiary novel of the film industry back in print after 20 years. A Hollywood Babylon for our time. Marshall Stone, international superstar and charismatic member of Hollywood's elite. Abundantly blessed with charm, genius and wealth, the one gift he most desires - everlasting youth - seems within his grasp when an eminent writer begins the star's biography. But painful memories and suppressed scandals threaten to expose the fiction of his life. Dazzled by flattery and numbed by threats, the biographer is caught up in the big-daddy world where books are properties, films are investments, ratings are rigged, and stars and directors are bought and sold like slaves at an auction. The rituals, the wheeler-dealing politics, and back-stabbing tactics of the richest industry in the world have never been more effectively portrayed. And at the heart of this glittering machine, a brilliant star who will do almost anything to remain untarnished. This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story., Deighton's incendiary novel of the film industry back in print after 20 years. A Hollywood Babylon for our time.