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Simon & Schuster
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Featuring: Hobart Bosworth
400 pages
ISBN: 1416547223
EAN: 9781416547228
Hardcover
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Jack London.The name stands for
adventure. Explorer. Social activist. Romantic.
Self-educated genius. White Fang. Call of the Wild.
Martin Eden. The Sea-Wolf. Generations worldwide have
been thrilled by his tales, probably never realizing how
true to life they really were. He did not imagine the
hardships and brutality of life in the Yukon, on the high
seas, or in the back alleys of Oakland. He lived them. Few
men were his equal and only one woman ever fully captivated
his heart. By the time he was forty, no American was more
famous. And in the winter of 1915, the great writer set sail
on one last adventure. But in this story of that
adventure, he is being hunted. Hobart Bosworth -- an aging
matinee idol and fi lmmaker -- is desperate for one more
Jack London picture to save his career. Hollywood
machinations have driven a wedge between him and his old
friend. He has tracked Jack and his wife, Charmian, from the
mysterious ruins of their once-magnifi cent Wolf House
across the Pacifi c to the volcanic islands of Hawaii. The
Jack London he fi nds here is a man half mad with visions, a
man struggling with the ghosts of his past, the erotic
temptations of the island paradise, and his own wolfl ike
nature. Now Hobart's original goal -- to save his studio
-- has become a desperate struggle to save his friend and
preserve the icon he has become. With or without Charmian
London's help. A romantic novel of sweeping passions and
raw adventure set against an unforgettable, sultry backdrop,
Jack London in Paradise vividly imagines the last
year in the life of a legendary man nearly everyone knows
about, but few actually know.
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