Always: A Love Story - Softcover

Meldal-Johnsen, Trevor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 152271703X ISBN 13: 9781522717034

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

"It's only a movie..." At least, that's what Hollywood up-and-coming screenwriter Gregory Thomas tells himself. But that doesn't explain the intense emotion evoked by his first glimpse of a long-dead 1940s actress. Nor does it explain his growing infatuation with her. And it certainly doesn’t explain his actions when that infatuation mushrooms into a full-blown obsession. At first, Gregory knows just one thing: He has to discover everything he can about Brooke Ashley and her mysterious death. But then he realizes that someone, or something, is determined to end his quest. Something that is willing to destroy him to stop him. From the superficial and illusory glamour of Hollywood into a twilight zone in which nothing is real—even death—Gregory tries to find his way, with only his heart as a guide.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Trevor Meldal-Johnsen's fiction has been called "gritty, compelling and sophisticated," by Emily Vernon in the 'New York Daily News', filled with "rich details and tasteful style," by 'Publisher's Weekly', and "full of pleasant surprises," by the 'West Coast Review of Books'. ALWAYS was his first published novel. Originally published in paperback in 1979 by Avon, it was immensely successful then, selling more than a million copies. It was translated into several languages and made into a film. Since then, he has published many more novels, all imbued with the rich experience he has acquired through his travels and his contact with many different peoples and cultures, but so many readers have been asking him about ALWAYS and where they could find it that we decided to republish it in a luxury hardback edition with a new afterword by the author.

From the Inside Flap:

"It's only a movie!" At least that's what up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter Gregory Thomas tells himself. But that doesn't explain the intense emotion evoked by his first glimpse of a long-dead actress. Nor does it explain his growing infatuation with her. And it certainly doesn't explain his actions when that infatuation mushrooms into an uncontrollable and full-blown obsession. At first, Gregory knows just one thing: He is compelled to discover everything he can about the beautiful Brooke Ashley and her mysterious and tragic death. But then he realizes someone--or something--is determined to end his quest. Something incorrigibly evil that is willing to destroy him to stop him. From the superficial and illusory glamour of Hollywood, into a mysterious twilight zone in which nothing is real--even death--Gregory follows his heart and moves closer and closer to the stunning actress, the woman he has always loved. Still relevant since first published, this page-turning and insightful novel provides an insider's view of a Hollywood in which greed, power and jealousy form an eternal triangle. And with consummate and heart-stopping skill, novelist Trevor Meldal-Johnsen also takes the reader into an even stranger world, one in which realities shift like rising waves of heat.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 152271703X
• ISBN 13: 9781522717034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300