My face for the world to see
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Word Count
32,750 words, Guess
Page Count
131 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27184895M
- ISBN-139781590176672
- ISBN-101590176677
- OCLC Control Number825733399
- Library of Congress Control Number2013008975
Classifications
- DDC813/.52
- LCCPS3515.A9367 M9 2013
Description
My face for the world to see is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you're only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. She's a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. She's just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes -- Back cover.
Subjects
Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
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