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My Face for the World to See

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes` exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind.`A masterpiece … an insider`s manual for all those who would aspire to fame, the ghostly glamour of the movies` Nicholas Lezard, Guardian`Hayes is the poet of the things we think about while lying in bed, when sleep refuses to carry us off` David Thomson

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