
The Return of the Player
Michael Tolkin(Author)
Atlantic Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 12. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-84354-559-0 (ISBN)
Description
Griffin Mill, the savage anti-hero of The Player, returns in this piercing satire of twenty-first century Hollywood.
When we last saw film executive Griffin Mill, fifteen years ago, he had just got away with murder. Now he's fifty-two, and down to his last $6 million. Divorce and stress have made him impotent, he's sure that global warming is going to destroy the planet - and his career has stalled. He needs to get out of Hollywood. But Mill needs an escape route, a safe haven - a private island somewhere in the south pacific with an airstrip and high ground. He has one last, desperate plan. He will convince almost-billionaire Phil Ginsberg (who aspires to 'really savage wealth') to join him for one final project - a film about the thing Hollywood understands best: money.
The Return of the Player is a bril-liant, incisive and candid satire of contemporary society spinning out of control.
When we last saw film executive Griffin Mill, fifteen years ago, he had just got away with murder. Now he's fifty-two, and down to his last $6 million. Divorce and stress have made him impotent, he's sure that global warming is going to destroy the planet - and his career has stalled. He needs to get out of Hollywood. But Mill needs an escape route, a safe haven - a private island somewhere in the south pacific with an airstrip and high ground. He has one last, desperate plan. He will convince almost-billionaire Phil Ginsberg (who aspires to 'really savage wealth') to join him for one final project - a film about the thing Hollywood understands best: money.
The Return of the Player is a bril-liant, incisive and candid satire of contemporary society spinning out of control.
Reviews / Votes
Tolkin remains impressive as a scorched-earth social satirist. -- Janet Maslin * New York Times * A wicked fever dream of a novel. -- Tom Nolan * San Francisco Chronicle * Tolkin utterly captures the most salient quality of life in Hollywood: the bowel-shaking fear that underlies everything. -- Seth Greenland * Los Angeles Times *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
n/a
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84354-559-0 (9781843545590)
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Person
Michael Tolkin is the author of The Player, Among the Dead and Under Radar. He wrote the screenplay for the Robert Altman film The Player and wrote and directed The Rapture and The New Age.