Brock Brower

The Late Great Creature

A Novel

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Brock Brower's National Book Award-nominated novel traces the making of a horror movie in Hollywood. Simon Moro, a 68-year-old star, is making his last picture, a low-budget remake of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Moro, infuriated by the bland horror movies of his day, sees his own career--even as it ends-- as an ongoing effort to wallop the public with an overwhelming moral shock. And he succeeds when an elaborate publicity stunt turns into a gruesome and grand personal statement. As Moro's life reels toward its macabre end, it also reels backward through lies and evasions to show its surprising beginning. Underneath his Frankensteinian exagg… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4683-0114-4
EAN: 9781468301144
Produktnummer: 31910097
Verlag: The Overlook Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Brock Brower has written for Esquire, the New York Times, and Harper's Magazine, among others, and has received an O. Henry Award for his short fiction. Brower lives in Carpinteria, California.