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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Grove Pr
Publication date
April 1, 1997
Pages
193
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780802135131
ISBN-10
0802135137
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$13.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Griffin Mill, a ruthless, ambitious senior vice president at a major Hollywood studio, has a mind devoid of principle and a luxury-filled life, but his world is shaken when a writer he has ignored threatens his life
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
"Just as Griffin suspected, there was a meeting in Levison's office without him." With this opening, we are taken into the mind and life of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. It is a mind full of paranoia, duplicity, and guile--and a life full of money, power, and fame. It is the movie business.
Griffin Mill is ruthlessly ambitious, driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. Griffin listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment on their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer to whose pitch he responded so glibly is sending him postcards: "You said you'd get back to me. You didn't. And now in the name of all writers who get pushed around by studio executives I'm going to kill you."
Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Griffin's deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy them both.
With a compulsively readable narrative that offers a devastating portrait of contemporary Hollywood--the studio execs, the deal-making, the politics, the pitches--The Player is the smartest book.
Griffin Mill is ruthlessly ambitious, driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. Griffin listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment on their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer to whose pitch he responded so glibly is sending him postcards: "You said you'd get back to me. You didn't. And now in the name of all writers who get pushed around by studio executives I'm going to kill you."
Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Griffin's deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy them both.
With a compulsively readable narrative that offers a devastating portrait of contemporary Hollywood--the studio execs, the deal-making, the politics, the pitches--The Player is the smartest book.
Editions
Hardcover
from Atlantic Monthly Pr (June 1, 1988)
9780871132284 | details & prices | List price $17.95
About: Griffin Mill, a ruthless, ambitious senior vice president at a major Hollywood studig has a mind devoid of principle and a luxury-filled life, but his world is shaken when a writer he has ignored threatens his life
About: Griffin Mill, a ruthless, ambitious senior vice president at a major Hollywood studig has a mind devoid of principle and a luxury-filled life, but his world is shaken when a writer he has ignored threatens his life
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Grove Pr (April 1, 1997)
9780802135131 | details & prices | 193 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.00
About: Griffin Mill, a ruthless, ambitious senior vice president at a major Hollywood studio, has a mind devoid of principle and a luxury-filled life, but his world is shaken when a writer he has ignored threatens his life
About: Griffin Mill, a ruthless, ambitious senior vice president at a major Hollywood studio, has a mind devoid of principle and a luxury-filled life, but his world is shaken when a writer he has ignored threatens his life
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