Souls for Sale
Published on 9. April 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-940660-57-8 (ISBN)
Description
On her wedding night, Remember "Mem" Steddon, daughter of a small-town conservative preacher, has a sudden change of heart. Abandoning her groom, she impulsively sneaks off their Los Angeles-bound honeymooner train in the middle of the desert. When she recuperates from dehydration, she finds herself on a film set and is cast as an extra. As Mem's masterful art of deception drives her to fame, the left-behind husband returns, raging with jealousy and murderous revenge.
First published 1922 and adapted to screen the following year by Rupert Hughes himself, this "insider" story of Hollywood filmmaking traces every Hollywood trope from slapstick comedy to theatrical melodrama with love and deceit at every page turn. Hazing the lines between truth and fiction, Souls for Sale is a snapshot of Hollywood's Golden Age, hailed by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg as "the heart of moviedom by anyone who believes in it."
First published 1922 and adapted to screen the following year by Rupert Hughes himself, this "insider" story of Hollywood filmmaking traces every Hollywood trope from slapstick comedy to theatrical melodrama with love and deceit at every page turn. Hazing the lines between truth and fiction, Souls for Sale is a snapshot of Hollywood's Golden Age, hailed by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg as "the heart of moviedom by anyone who believes in it."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Los Angeles
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-940660-57-8 (9781940660578)
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Rupert Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. Sarah Gleeson-White is Associate Professor in American Literature in the Department of English, University of Sydney. She is the author of William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers (Alabama University Press, 2003), as well as articles and book chapters on Faulkner, McCullers, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.