I Should Have Stayed Home A Novel
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Erscheinungsdatum
15.01.2013
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Open Road MediaSeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9781453292044
McCoy's classic, slyly funny novel about a pair of young actors trying to make it in a pitiless Hollywood
For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood-but none seem to be direct or easy. The handsome Georgia native immediately finds that his Southern accent is one strike against him, though he manages to eke out a living as an extra alongside his pretty roommate Mona Matthews. But the big break for these two young hopefuls finally arrives in a curious way. When their third roommate is sentenced to three years in prison for shoplifting, Mona's emotional courtroom outburst wins her and Ralph notoriety-and entrée into new social circles. Ralph becomes the self-loathing plaything of Ethel Smithers, a wealthy widow who promises much but has no interest in delivering. Mona faces romantic nightmares of her own while also being blacklisted for joining a union. A precursor to
Sunset Boulevard, and reminiscent of Nathanael West,
I Should Have Stayed Home is a fantastically hardboiled portrait of Tinseltown in the thirties.
This ebook features an extended biography of Horace McCoy.
For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood-but none seem to be direct or easy. The handsome Georgia native immediately finds that his Southern accent is one strike against him, though he manages to eke out a living as an extra alongside his pretty roommate Mona Matthews. But the big break for these two young hopefuls finally arrives in a curious way. When their third roommate is sentenced to three years in prison for shoplifting, Mona's emotional courtroom outburst wins her and Ralph notoriety-and entrée into new social circles. Ralph becomes the self-loathing plaything of Ethel Smithers, a wealthy widow who promises much but has no interest in delivering. Mona faces romantic nightmares of her own while also being blacklisted for joining a union. A precursor to
Sunset Boulevard, and reminiscent of Nathanael West,
I Should Have Stayed Home is a fantastically hardboiled portrait of Tinseltown in the thirties.
This ebook features an extended biography of Horace McCoy.
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