Screenplay

By MacDonald Harris

Book Overview

It is 1980's Los Angeles. Alys, a wealthy young dilettante accepts the invitation of a stranger to "get you into pictures" and suddenly finds himself behind the movie screen in the black-and-white world of the Silents: a Hollywood precisely as it was in the 1920's where love is the only subject matter but passion can be expressed solely within the censor's strict limits: where neither love nor death can last beyond the moment when the director says "Print That "

Alys's love for the glamorous and elusive Moira Silver inevitably leads him to want to break out of this artificial world with her, back to garishly colourful Los Angeles.

Screenplay is a novel as tauntingly erotic as it is brilliantly imaginative--a mysterious and captivating novel that, while unique in itself, shares the magic of John Fowles's The Magus and Nabokov's Pale Fire.

Actor and writer Simon Callow has long been a huge fan of this writer - and in particular this book - and has written a fascinating Afterword. Callow has always longed to make a movie.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915530873
• ISBN13: 9781915530875
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Galileo Publishers
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"