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"A shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel."--The New York Times Book Review
Grove Press
April 1997
On Sale: April 1, 1997
Featuring: Griffin Mill
193 pages
ISBN: 0802135137
EAN: 9780802135131
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"Just as Griffin suspected, there was a meeting in Levison's
office without him." With this opening, we are taken into
the mind and life of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of
production at a major Hollywood studio. It is a mind full of
paranoia, duplicity, and guile--and a life full of money,
power, and fame. It is the movie business. Griffin Mill is ruthlessly ambitious, driven to control the
levers of America's dream-making machinery. Griffin listens
to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment on
their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer to whose
pitch he responded so glibly is sending him postcards: "You
said you'd get back to me. You didn't. And now in the name
of all writers who get pushed around by studio executives
I'm going to kill you." Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to
his job, Griffin's deliberate and horrifying response spins
him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful
June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy
them both. With a compulsively readable narrative that offers a
devastating portrait of contemporary Hollywood--the studio
execs, the deal-making, the politics, the pitches--The
Player is the smartest book about Hollywood since What Makes
Sammy Run? and the most sinister since The Day of the
Locust. If Dashiel Hammett were alive today, this is the
book he would write about Hollywood.
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