Hold fast your crown / Yannick Haenel ; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haenel, Yannick, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator.

Standardized Title:

Tiens ferme ta couronne. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, American.

Authors--Fiction.

Motion pictures--Fiction.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures, American--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Authors--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

332 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2019]

Summary:

"An exasperated writer obsessed with American cinema embarks on an increasingly bizarre journey in this heady, engrossing novel. A man writes an enormous screenplay on the life of Herman Melville. Not a single producer is interested in it. One day, someone gives him the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, legendary director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. A meeting is arranged in New York, and Cimino reads the manuscript. What follows is a series of crazy adventures through Ellis Island, the Musée de la Chasse in Paris, a lake in Italy. We run into Isabelle Huppert, Diana the hunting goddess, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a diabolical neighbor, and two shady characters with conspicuous mustaches. There's also a pretty PhD student, an unpleasant concierge, and an aggressive maître d' who looks like Emmanuel Macron... This improbable, insightful tale bridges the divide between cinema and literature in unexpected ways that are at once gratifying and profound" -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in 2017 as Tiens ferme ta couronne by Éditions Gallimard, Paris.

Other Format:

Online version: Haenel, Yannick, 1967- author. Hold fast your crown

ISBN:

9781590519752

1590519752

OCLC:

1044549992