Stars Screaming

✍ Scribed by John Kaye

• Publisher: Grove Atlantic;Atlantic Monthly Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 203 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"A cross between The Player, The Day of the Locust, and Sunset Boulevard . . . A gritty, bizarre, yet all-too-believable Tinseltown epic" (Detour).

Ray Burk is a disillusioned network censor struggling to break into The Business as a screenwriter. Navigating his unscripted personal life is another story—with an unbalanced wife Sandra and a neglected son growing more and more detached from the real world. Now trying to make sense of a fractured past and an uncertain future, Burk spends days on marathon drives through Los Angeles, cruising from one idea to the next in hopes of making it rich. Then he crosses paths with a young victim of a Hollywood dream turned nightmare. Her story is one of vengeance and dark secrets, and Burk can't resist its infernal pull. But in a world of make-believe, Burk's descent into the twilight underworld of the City of Angels may too real to escape.

Taking us beyond the shimmering...