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The Slide Area
by Gavin Lambert

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
London, UK

Year


1959 (FIRST EDITION)       
Cover / size: hardcover / h 20.3 cm * 13.7 cm / 223 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Rating explanation

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Arbery Ref:   000291


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Lambert: The Slide Area






Condition: Fair

Boards: green, cancelled Boots library sticker, stained, slightly worn at edges, discoloured. Page edges heavily mottled. Spine leaning forward. Discolouring of some pages



Plot / Content:

Seven short stories about Hollywood.



Background / Biography:

Gavin Lambert (23 July 1924 - 17 July 2005) was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer who lived for part of his life in Hollywood. His writing was mainly fiction and nonfiction about the film industry. Continued on Wikipedia



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Quote from this book
"About this hour and season, four o'clock in the afternoon and early sunmmer, I find myself looking out of the window and wondering why the world seems bright yet melancholy.

I am sitting in office 298 of a Hollywood film studio, working on a script and thinking that the film Cliff Harriston is going to make of it won't do either of us much good. This morning I noticed a truck parked outside one of the shooting stages. Scenery was being unloaded, the walls and furniture of a living-room carried into the empty stage where camera, lights and the high crane are already waiting. There is no stopping it now, I thought. Later, imagining the reality being hammered and painted and wheeled into shape over there, I looked at the pages on my desk and found them more unreal, more impossible than ever. Tomorrow there will be more arguments with executives. We shall plead our cause and discuss what is truth. I would like to start work on the novel I am hoping to write and pretend is already under way."

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