The king is dead / Jim Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Jim, 1963-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--Fiction.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Crimes of passion.

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

Crimes of passion--Fiction.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Politicians--Fiction.

Politicians.

Uxoricide--Fiction.

Uxoricide.

Tennessee--Fiction.

Tennessee.

Adoptees--Fiction.

Adoptees.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

259 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Contemporaries edition.

Other Title:

King is dead : a novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

Returning a hero from the battlefields of World War II, Walter Selby settles into a charmed domestic life in Memphis. But in a few brief moments, Walter sees his life and his world fracture and split apart, driving him to commit a terrible crime. Many years later, Frank Cartwright ponders his next move. His film career has left him wealthy but incomplete. When a director approaches him with a script that has a riddle for a plot Frank is intrigued by its resonance. In his search for an answer to the riddle, Frank embarks on a journey that will lead him into a past he doesn't remember. Jim Lewis, acclaimed author of Why the Tree Loves the Ax, returns with a novel stunning in its originality and scope. And as he tells the stories of two men and the conflicts that shape them, he delivers a powerful portrait of America and the treacherous currents that run through it.

ISBN:

0375714006

9780375714009

OCLC:

57543018