9780060515843

Let's All Kill Constance: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

ISBN 10: 0060515848 / 0-06-051584-8
ISBN 13: 9780060515843
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
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On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: twin lists of the Tinseltown dead and soon-to-be dead . . . with Constance's name included among them.

And, just as suddenly, she vanishes into the stormy night, leaving the narrator with her macabre "gifts" and an unshakable determination to get to the root of the actress's grand terror.

So begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick, Crumley, to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood. But a world that once sparkled with larger- than-life luminaries -- Dietrich, Valentino, Harlow -- is now a graveyard of ghosts and secrets. Each twisted road our heroes travel leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams -- a remote cabin where history is preserved in mountains of yellowed newsprint; a cathedral where sinners hold sway; a forgotten projection booth where the past lives eternally on in an endless loop of cinematic youth and beauty. And always the road turns back to lost filmdom's temple, a fading movie palace called Grauman's Chinese, and to the murky hidden catacombs beneath.

Prepare yourself for a mystery as enthralling as the most well-crafted whodunit; a satire as keen as the edge of a straight razor, a phantasmagoric celebration of a lost world built on equal parts dream and nightmare -- the latest fantastic flight of glorious imagination by Ray Bradbury, the one and only.


 

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Book Description: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Hardcover, SIGNED by RAY BRADBURY on the full title page. U.S. 1st Edition/1st Printing -- the true 1st Edition of this novel. NEW/NEW condition, a mint unread copy suitable for collectors. Brodart protected. Part mystery, part satire, part fantasy -- a winning novel that defies classification from one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Author of more than 30 books, winner of numerous awards for his books and screenplays, and recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A rare signature due to his advanced years, especially on a 1st printing. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-796304370

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Book Description: William Morrow, 2003. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First print. Flatsigned by Ray Bradbury at half-title page. Orange boards, blue spine wrap, gilt spine titles. Bright jacket art by José Luis Merino; unclipped 23.95. The arrival of an aging beauty--a former child star--on his doorstep sets a second-rate screenwriter on a bizarre trail where he encounters some of the strangest characters in that strangest of places, Hollywood. 210 pages. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 010649

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