Alfred Hayes

The End of Me

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Middle aged Hollywood screenwriter fallen on hard times Asher falls into the orbit of a young poet named Michael and his companion Aurora, the three descending into a complex dynamic. Considered one of Hayes' defining novels, incorporating autobiographical elements.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bailey, Paul

ISBN: 978-1-68137-433-8
EAN: 9781681374338
Produktnummer: 31970328
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.5 cm 196 g
Gewicht: 196

Über den Autor

Alfred Hayes (1911-1985) was a journalist, poet, screenwriter, and novelist. Having served in Italy during World War II, he stayed on to co-write several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, as well as to gather material for two celebrated novels, All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flamina. In the late 1940s he went to work in Hollywood for Warner Brothers, RKO, and Twentieth Century Fox, where his screenplays included Clash by Night, The Left Hand of God, and Joy in the Morning. Hayes's novels In Love and My Face for the World to See are also available from NYRB Classics.Paul Bailey's novels include At The Jerusalem, which won the Somerset Maugham award, and Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both shortlisted for the Booker prize. He is the author of biographies of Quentin Crisp and Cynthia Payne.