SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in
the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a
difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth
Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen
legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic.
Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only
fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his
father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a
precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a
conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous
roommate; a contractor who can’t stop expanding his house; a
happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired
Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show;
and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic
sex monster.
Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning
story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and
adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of
everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the
dead—and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop
of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary
Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel
combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims
with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art,
of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it
all.
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