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Title: Crossed Out Notebook, The
Author: GIACOBONE NICOLAS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 31/03/2020
Imprint: CORSAIR
Price: $22.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
‘This stylish debut novel by an Oscar-winning Argentine screenwriter (he co-wrote BIRDMAN) is a suspenseful, darkly funny exploration of the creative process and the porous boundary between reality and fiction. Highly recommended’ The Mail on Sunday, ‘The Best New Fiction’
From the Academy Award-winning co-writer of BIRDMAN, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of MISERY and KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece.
Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. THE CROSSED-OUT NOTEBOOK is Pablo’s diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he’s written the previous day.
The clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, THE CROSSED-OUT NOTEBOOK is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.
ISBN: 9781472154538
Weight: 300gr
Pages: 256