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Hollywood

- Number 5 in series
Af: Gore Vidal Engelsk Paperback

Hollywood

- Number 5 in series
Af: Gore Vidal Engelsk Paperback
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Continuing what has been dubbed his ''revenge on two hundred years of American history'', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America''s capital as the nation''s power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book. Caroline Sanford, erstwhile newspaper magnate, launches herself into the West Coast land of celluloid dreams and becomes, overnight, an international star. Not for nothing, on the dawn of World War One, is Caroline making films like the Huns from Hell. She is a government agent. But in Washington, that government isn''t doing awfully well. Weighed down by his League of Nation''s failure, by Roosevelt, Clemenceau, a stroke and the ship-like tonnage of his wife Edith, President Woodrow Wilson is on the wane - and Warren Harding is on the up. A popular, handsome, toothpick-chomping philanderer and dimwit whose wife is given to consulting spiritualists, he is about to usher in a new era. One of unprecedented scandal, cinematic extravagance and tawdry disintegration. The sort of era where the President could easily be mistaken for a film star ...
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Continuing what has been dubbed his ''revenge on two hundred years of American history'', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America''s capital as the nation''s power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book. Caroline Sanford, erstwhile newspaper magnate, launches herself into the West Coast land of celluloid dreams and becomes, overnight, an international star. Not for nothing, on the dawn of World War One, is Caroline making films like the Huns from Hell. She is a government agent. But in Washington, that government isn''t doing awfully well. Weighed down by his League of Nation''s failure, by Roosevelt, Clemenceau, a stroke and the ship-like tonnage of his wife Edith, President Woodrow Wilson is on the wane - and Warren Harding is on the up. A popular, handsome, toothpick-chomping philanderer and dimwit whose wife is given to consulting spiritualists, he is about to usher in a new era. One of unprecedented scandal, cinematic extravagance and tawdry disintegration. The sort of era where the President could easily be mistaken for a film star ...
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 512
ISBN-13: 9780349105260
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 034910526X
Kategori: Historiske romaner
Udg. Dato: 2 apr 1994
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 2 apr 1994
Forfatter(e): Gore Vidal
Forfatter(e) Gore Vidal

Kategori Historiske romaner

ISBN-13 9780349105260

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 512

Udgave

Længde 33mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 2 apr 1994

Oplagsdato 2 apr 1994

Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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