Ten Days in the Hills

✍ Scribed by Jane Smiley

• Book ID: 100240319
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307267350

✦ Synopsis

On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max -- an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned -- and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by the swimming pool, and tussle in the many bedrooms. The tension mounts, sparks fly, and Smiley delivers a virtuosic, unputdownable romp of a novel about love, war, sex, politics, storytelling -- and, of course, redemption -- that's Hollywood!