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Night for Day

Af: Patrick Flanery Engelsk Paperback

Night for Day

Af: Patrick Flanery Engelsk Paperback
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A feverish vision of McCarthy-era Hollywood...

Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to convince his actress wife not to turn informant for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, while leftist screenwriter Desmond Frank confronts the possibility of exile to live and work without fear of being blacklisted. As Marsh and Frank struggle to complete shooting on their film She Turned Away, which updates the myth of Orpheus to the gritty noir underworld of post-war Los Angeles, the chaos of their private lives pushes them towards a climactic confrontation with complicity, jealousy, and fear.

Night for Day conjures a feverish vision of one of the country''s most notorious periods of national crisis, illuminating the eternal dilemma of both art and politics: how to make the world anew. At once a definitively American novel, echoing Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler, it also nods to the mythic landscapes of Dante and the iconoclastic playfulness of James Joyce. With as much to say about the early years of the Cold War as about the political and social divisions that continue to divide the country today, Night for Day is expansive in scope and yet tenderly intimate, exploring the subtleties of belonging and the enormity of exile-not only from one''s country but also from one''s self.

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A feverish vision of McCarthy-era Hollywood...

Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to convince his actress wife not to turn informant for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, while leftist screenwriter Desmond Frank confronts the possibility of exile to live and work without fear of being blacklisted. As Marsh and Frank struggle to complete shooting on their film She Turned Away, which updates the myth of Orpheus to the gritty noir underworld of post-war Los Angeles, the chaos of their private lives pushes them towards a climactic confrontation with complicity, jealousy, and fear.

Night for Day conjures a feverish vision of one of the country''s most notorious periods of national crisis, illuminating the eternal dilemma of both art and politics: how to make the world anew. At once a definitively American novel, echoing Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler, it also nods to the mythic landscapes of Dante and the iconoclastic playfulness of James Joyce. With as much to say about the early years of the Cold War as about the political and social divisions that continue to divide the country today, Night for Day is expansive in scope and yet tenderly intimate, exploring the subtleties of belonging and the enormity of exile-not only from one''s country but also from one''s self.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 672
ISBN-13: 9781782396086
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 178239608X
Udg. Dato: 3 sep 2020
Længde: 48mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato: 3 sep 2020
Forfatter(e): Patrick Flanery
Forfatter(e) Patrick Flanery


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781782396086


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 672


Udgave


Længde 48mm


Bredde 128mm


Højde 196mm


Udg. Dato 3 sep 2020


Oplagsdato 3 sep 2020


Forlag Atlantic Books