A parallel narrative set in the American West in the 1870s and Hollywood in the era of the silent films. A struggling writer wishes to make an epic of the American West and believes an old-time Western actor will provide authentic content. However, the actor tells his own, different story.
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A parallel narrative set in the American West in the 1870s and Hollywood in the era of the silent films. A struggling writer wishes to make an epic of the American West and believes an old-time Western actor will provide authentic content. However, the actor tells his own, different story.
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Like New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes From Library Journal In alternating chapters, two narratives? one set in the American West, the other in Twenties Hollywood? gradually unfold and intersect. The Western saga centers around a boy who, after his English employer succumbs to a fever, attaches himself to a band of wolvers making their perilous way through hostile Indian territory into Canada. Fifty years later, in Hollywood, Saskatchewan native Harry Vincent is taken in hand by Rachel Gold, a so-called "new woman, " as a scenarist for a studio headed by the mysterious and elusive Damon Ira Chance. Chance dreams of producing an epic Western in the tradition of his hero, D.W. Griffith, that will stand as a landmark of cinematic history. To this end, he hires Vincent to track down an old-timer whose story he is sure will lend itself to his purpose. This winner of the Governor General's award for fiction, Canada's top literary prize, has a sweeping scope and an evocative sense of time and place. We have Ludlum's spy stories, Grisham's legal thrillers, and Patrick O'Brian's sea tales, but on the quality literary front so dominated by fiction written by and appealing to women, it is a rare pleasure to be able to recommend one for the boys. ? Barbara Love, Kingston P.L., Ontario Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Entertainment Weekly The power of movies to rewrite history is the fascinating theme fueling this trenchant novel. Canadian writer Vanderhaeghe seamlessly alternates two interconnected stories...--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
