Shunned for being a "friendly witness," a brilliant outcast filmmaker must work or go mad in the wake of the blacklist era. This is the story of his comeback.
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DALLEMAGNE-COOKSONS THIRD NOVEL RECOUNTS THE COMEBACK OF A HOLLYWOOD OUTCAST
Shunned for being a friendly witness, a brilliant filmmaker must work or go mad, in the wake of the blacklist era.
Dallemagne-Cookson presents a compelling tale spiced with fascinating glimpses into a cosmopolitan world. --Booklist (2/1/00)
Set in the 1950s, this is a story of love and art and politics, centered on the desperate attempt of a genius to recover his career and to hold onto his self-esteem. It is also the story of a young woman who loves him, who helps him put his life back together again after it has been shattered as a result of his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and who, in turn, is almost consumed and destroyed by this mans passion.
Celia Smith, a young woman at loose ends traveling in Spain in 1955, meets Ben Rogers, a powerful Academy Award-winning writer/director/producer who is making a film there. She takes a job working for Rogers and is invited to join him in New York and Hollywood. This association turns into a tempestuous and doomed love affair, from which Celia must escape or lose her sanity.
She retreats to Tahiti, where she discovers her own worth and the serenity shes looked for all her short life. Meanwhile Rogers has found himself unable to live or work without her. He follows her to the South Seas for a stormy confrontation as dramatic as any film hes ever made.
Elise Dallemagne-Cookson is the author of The Bearded Lion Who Roars, a memoir of her life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the time of that countrys independence from Belgium. After leaving the Congo, she and her husband settled in Argentina and became dairy farmers, an experience that served as the basis of her first novel, The Ombu Tree.
Upon her return to the United States, she worked for eight years on Wall Street before retiring to a farm in Cherry Valley, New York. Dallemagne-Cooksons new novel, The Filmmaker, is based on her experience in the film industry prior to leaving for the Belgian Congo in 1959.
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