**From the Academy Award-winning cowriter of *Birdman*, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of *Misery* and *Kiss of the Spiderwoman* about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece.** Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turn
The crossed-out notebook: a novel
✍ Scribed by Giacobone, Nicolás;McDowell, Megan
- Book ID
- 100588737
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Argentina,Argentina.
- ISBN
- 1501198769
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✦ Synopsis
From the Academy Award-winning cowriter of Birdman , a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of Misery and Kiss of the Spiderwoman about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece.
Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. The Crossed-Out Notebook is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day.
The clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun...
✦ Subjects
Argentina
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