Mercury Pictures presents : a novel / Anthony Marra.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780451495204
- ISBN: 0451495209
- ISBN: 9780593449165
- ISBN: 0593449169
- Physical Description: 416 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: London ; Hogarth, [2022]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout this wondrous, far-reaching novel. Like many before her, Maria has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Despite its cheap production values and factory-approach to making movies, Mercury Pictures is a nexus of refugees and émigrés, each struggling to reinvent themselves in the land of celluloid. There's Artie, the studio boss, a man of many toupees who barely escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe; there's Anna, a set designer, who ran afoul of Hitler; and there's Eddie Lu, a struggling actor and Maria's boyfriend, who despite being born in Los Angeles encounters the worst of America's xenophobia. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changes for Maria and her world, forcing her come to terms with her father's fate--and her own"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Immigrants > United States > Fiction. Motion pictures > Production and direction > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. War fiction. |
Available copies
- 38 of 38 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 38 total copies.
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Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF MAR (Text) | 33260000538679 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mercury Pictures Presents : A Novel
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Author Notes
Mercury Pictures Presents : A Novel
Anthony Marra received a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine, and MAKE Magazine. His short story Chechnya won a 2010 Pushcart Prize and the 2010 Narrative Prize. His debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, was published in 2013 and received the inaugural John Leonard Prize. He also received 2018 Simpson Family Literary Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)