The Late Great Creature - Softcover
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 exaggeration, Moro has a vivid and humane story to tell, even as the coffins break open and dark, erotic secrets are revealed. Brock Brower has taken the horror film in all its gory glory to create a book that recycles pop material into literature, creating a Dickensian tale of America.
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Brock Brower has written for Esquire, The New York Times and Harper's, and has received an O. Henry Award for his short fiction. He lives in Carpinteria, California.
Review:
A wonder-work, a display of wit in the oldest and truest sense of the word, [with] style that illuminates the total structure. * The New York Times Book Review * A lost classic ... a feast for a new generation of readers. The Late Great Creature is ... a treatise on human frailty and the innate human urge to seek the sublime through the grotesque. Brock Brower created a brilliantly observed and wholly synchronous work of art. -- James Ellroy It's a wonderful book ... like a circus with several brilliant performances going on at the same time ... a real breakingthrough. I don't think anybody ever again will be able to dabble politely in mixing 'real life' and fiction. -- Joan Didion
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- PublisherOverlook Duckworth
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0715642898
- ISBN 13 9780715642894
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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