**A scalding exploration of love, marriage, fidelity, and betrayal.** *"Meet me at five,"*the voice said on the answering machine. Four ordinary words yet, when heard by the wrong person, enough to change the course of a marriage. Marooned in Hollywood while writing a screenplay based on his lates
Hollywood Savage
✍ Scribed by Kristin McCloy
- Publisher
- Atria Books;Washington Square Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Edition
- 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1439177163
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A scalding exploration of love, marriage, fidelity, and betrayal.
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"Meet me at five,"_ the voice said on the answering machine. Four ordinary words yet, when heard by the wrong person, enough to change the course of a marriage.
Marooned in Hollywood while writing a screenplay based on his latest bestselling novel, Miles King records in his journals his escalating conviction that his glamorous wife, a New York-based journalist named Maggie, is having an affair with Miles's favorite student.
Amidst the sun-buffed egos and the longing for connection and fame he encounters at every cocktail party and no-name bar in Hollywood, Miles finds unexpected comfort in an affair of his own with Lucy, a young mother whose open, eager mind sparks an irresistible passion in him. A potent brew of lust, guilt, anger, and betrayal, Miles's journals reveal his constantly shifting emotional state and the perils he must navigate as his...
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