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City of flickering light / Juliette Fay.
Van Pelt Library PS3606.A95 C58 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fay, Juliette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Nineteen twenties--Fiction.
- Nineteen twenties.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- California--Los Angeles--Hollywood.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- FICTION / Historical / General.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 380 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Gallery books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York , NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.
- Summary:
- "It's July 1921, "flickers" are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth--iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating--and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn't come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life" -- Amazon.com
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fay, Juliette. City of flickering light.
- ISBN:
- 9781501192937
- 1501192930
- 9781501192944
- 1501192949
- OCLC:
- 1039209257
- Publisher Number:
- 99981219764
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