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Additional authors

1. Fagan, Teresa Lavender

Description

1. 332 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "An exasperated writer obsessed with American cinema embarks on an increasingly bizarre journey in this heady, engrossing novel. A man writes an enormous screenplay on the life of Herman Melville. Not a single producer is interested in it. One day, someone gives him the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, legendary director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. A meeting is arranged in New York, and Cimino reads the manuscript. What follows is a series of crazy adventures through Ellis Island, the Musée de la Chasse in Paris, a lake in Italy. We run into Isabelle Huppert, Diana the hunting goddess, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a diabolical neighbor, and two shady characters with conspicuous mustaches. There's also a pretty PhD student, an unpleasant concierge, and an aggressive maître d' who looks like Emmanuel Macron... This improbable, insightful tale bridges the divide between cinema and literature in unexpected ways that are at once gratifying and profound" --

Uniform title

1. Tiens ferme ta couronne. English

Alternative title

1. Tiens ferme ta couronne.

Subject

1. Psychological fiction
2. Motion pictures > Fiction
3. Biographical fiction
4. Fiction
5. Motion pictures, American > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Biographical fiction.
3. Psychological fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 19-2419

Note

1. Originally published in 2017 as Tiens ferme ta couronne by Éditions Gallimard, Paris.

Author

1. Haenel, Yannick, 1967- author.

Title

1. Hold fast your crown / Yannick Haenel ; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Publisher

1. New York : Other Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator.

Other form:

1. Online version: Haenel, Yannick, 1967- author. Hold fast your crown New York : Other Press, [2019] 9781590519769 (DLC) 2018049076

LCCN

1. 2018037536

ISBN

1. 9781590519752 paperback
2. 1590519752 paperback
3. 9781590519769 (ebook)

Research call number

1. JFD 19-2419