Hollywood Gothic eBook Thomas Gifford
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Convicted of murder, a screenwriter gets a chance to clear his name
Toby is the least likeable character in the book, but since he's always treated people decently, even generously, he has allies in his search. These allies range from the car park guy at the Beverly Hills Hotel, who loans him a vintage Mustang, to a beautiful and mysterious woman who alters his appearance, to powerful studio heads who offer him a new life in Europe.. Our Toby, though, is relentless in his search for the truth. His memories are untrustworthy, his friends both better and worse than he thought, and he's forced to grow up. The self-centered boozing, womanizing cynic who interprets everything in terms of a movie shoot of the first chapter evolves into a sadder, wiser, clear eyed and self-aware human being by the last. It's quite a ride. Set during mudslide season on the Pacific Coast, there's a backdrop of torrential rains and mansions sliding down hillsides into the sea. Gifford's description of the destruction of an entire neighborhood is vivid and echoes the fate of the carefully built structures of lies Toby faces.
If some of the action is over the top, and some of the characters less than believable, it's OK. This is escapist fiction, though extremely well-written. The plot's dated elements, pay phones and map reading, are rendered unimportant by the force and skill of the writing. Gifford is as noir a writer as Chandler or Hammett and almost as good.
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The main character is a selfish, self-centered egotist with no redeeming qualities. I stopped reading when he encounters some mentally challenged children as the story seem trite.
Thomas Gifford (1937-2000) was my favorite author and Hollywood Gothic was one of his best. Though he claimed I was wrong, I always believed he wrote it as darkly as he did because Hollywood had done such a botch job on "Dirty Tricks," the horrible movie cobbled from his excellent novel, "The Glendower Legacy." If he truly did not indulge in a revenge novel, this one comes close enough.
Set in the coke and alcohol fueled world of last-century showbiz, Hollywood Gothic is a page-turner of a thriller. The anti-hero, Toby Challis is on his way to prison after being found guilty of bashing his unfaithful wife's head in with his screen-writing Oscar. Through a series of fortuitous accidents, he's free and on the lam, and sets out to find out who really killed Goldie.
Toby is the least likeable character in the book, but since he's always treated people decently, even generously, he has allies in his search. These allies range from the car park guy at the Beverly Hills Hotel, who loans him a vintage Mustang, to a beautiful and mysterious woman who alters his appearance, to powerful studio heads who offer him a new life in Europe.. Our Toby, though, is relentless in his search for the truth. His memories are untrustworthy, his friends both better and worse than he thought, and he's forced to grow up. The self-centered boozing, womanizing cynic who interprets everything in terms of a movie shoot of the first chapter evolves into a sadder, wiser, clear eyed and self-aware human being by the last. It's quite a ride. Set during mudslide season on the Pacific Coast, there's a backdrop of torrential rains and mansions sliding down hillsides into the sea. Gifford's description of the destruction of an entire neighborhood is vivid and echoes the fate of the carefully built structures of lies Toby faces.
If some of the action is over the top, and some of the characters less than believable, it's OK. This is escapist fiction, though extremely well-written. The plot's dated elements, pay phones and map reading, are rendered unimportant by the force and skill of the writing. Gifford is as noir a writer as Chandler or Hammett and almost as good.
Hollywood Gothic eBook Thomas Gifford
Set in the coke and alcohol fueled world of last-century showbiz, Hollywood Gothic is a page-turner of a thriller. The anti-hero, Toby Challis is on his way to prison after being found guilty of bashing his unfaithful wife's head in with his screen-writing Oscar. Through a series of fortuitous accidents, he's free and on the lam, and sets out to find out who really killed Goldie.Toby is the least likeable character in the book, but since he's always treated people decently, even generously, he has allies in his search. These allies range from the car park guy at the Beverly Hills Hotel, who loans him a vintage Mustang, to a beautiful and mysterious woman who alters his appearance, to powerful studio heads who offer him a new life in Europe.. Our Toby, though, is relentless in his search for the truth. His memories are untrustworthy, his friends both better and worse than he thought, and he's forced to grow up. The self-centered boozing, womanizing cynic who interprets everything in terms of a movie shoot of the first chapter evolves into a sadder, wiser, clear eyed and self-aware human being by the last. It's quite a ride. Set during mudslide season on the Pacific Coast, there's a backdrop of torrential rains and mansions sliding down hillsides into the sea. Gifford's description of the destruction of an entire neighborhood is vivid and echoes the fate of the carefully built structures of lies Toby faces.
If some of the action is over the top, and some of the characters less than believable, it's OK. This is escapist fiction, though extremely well-written. The plot's dated elements, pay phones and map reading, are rendered unimportant by the force and skill of the writing. Gifford is as noir a writer as Chandler or Hammett and almost as good.
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The main character is a selfish, self-centered egotist with no redeeming qualities. I stopped reading when he encounters some mentally challenged children as the story seem trite.
Thomas Gifford (1937-2000) was my favorite author and Hollywood Gothic was one of his best. Though he claimed I was wrong, I always believed he wrote it as darkly as he did because Hollywood had done such a botch job on "Dirty Tricks," the horrible movie cobbled from his excellent novel, "The Glendower Legacy." If he truly did not indulge in a revenge novel, this one comes close enough.
Set in the coke and alcohol fueled world of last-century showbiz, Hollywood Gothic is a page-turner of a thriller. The anti-hero, Toby Challis is on his way to prison after being found guilty of bashing his unfaithful wife's head in with his screen-writing Oscar. Through a series of fortuitous accidents, he's free and on the lam, and sets out to find out who really killed Goldie.
Toby is the least likeable character in the book, but since he's always treated people decently, even generously, he has allies in his search. These allies range from the car park guy at the Beverly Hills Hotel, who loans him a vintage Mustang, to a beautiful and mysterious woman who alters his appearance, to powerful studio heads who offer him a new life in Europe.. Our Toby, though, is relentless in his search for the truth. His memories are untrustworthy, his friends both better and worse than he thought, and he's forced to grow up. The self-centered boozing, womanizing cynic who interprets everything in terms of a movie shoot of the first chapter evolves into a sadder, wiser, clear eyed and self-aware human being by the last. It's quite a ride. Set during mudslide season on the Pacific Coast, there's a backdrop of torrential rains and mansions sliding down hillsides into the sea. Gifford's description of the destruction of an entire neighborhood is vivid and echoes the fate of the carefully built structures of lies Toby faces.
If some of the action is over the top, and some of the characters less than believable, it's OK. This is escapist fiction, though extremely well-written. The plot's dated elements, pay phones and map reading, are rendered unimportant by the force and skill of the writing. Gifford is as noir a writer as Chandler or Hammett and almost as good.
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