The Player
Published on 1. April 2018
193 pages
978-1-55584-747-0 (ISBN)
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The "shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel" that inspired the award-winning Robert Altman film (
The
New York Times Book Review).
Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. Ruthlessly ambitious, Mill is driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. He listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment of their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer whose pitch he responded to so glibly is sending him mortally threatening postcards.
Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Mill'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.
"One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes." - Los Angeles Times
"In its wry, acerbic description of life behind the studio gates Tolkin's book recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald ... and the vengeful comedy of Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. Ruthlessly ambitious, Mill is driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. He listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment of their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer whose pitch he responded to so glibly is sending him mortally threatening postcards.
Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Mill'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.
"One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes." - Los Angeles Times
"In its wry, acerbic description of life behind the studio gates Tolkin's book recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald ... and the vengeful comedy of Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Michael Tolkin is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. His novels include
The Player,
The Return of the Player,
Among the Dead, and
Under Radar. For the film adaptation of
The Player, Tolkin won the Writers Guild Award, the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the PEN Center USA West Literary Award, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Crime Screenplay. Most recently, he has been a consulting producer and writer for the Showtime series
Ray Donovan.
