Do Tell
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her studio contract, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist, and when an up-and-coming starlet...
lieferbar
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Kartoniert)
22.10 €
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „Do Tell “
Klappentext zu „Do Tell “
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her studio contract, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist, and when an up-and-coming starlet hands her a letter alleging an assault from an A-list actor, Edie gets the story into print.Lese-Probe zu „Do Tell “
OneThe last time I saw Charles Landrieu in Los Angeles, he told me I had gotten everything wrong.
Everything? I asked him.
Everything.
It wasn t the first time someone had leveled this accusation against me and I was certain it wouldn t be the last.
Actors talk so much--not enough people focus on the things they won t say.
So I did. I built my career in silences and averted glances, paying attention to who missed work, who skipped parties. I asked why, and when no one answered, I filled in the blanks myself.
The day I talked with Charles, I considered asking him to give me whatever he believed to be the correct story. To tell me what I had missed. By that time, he was blacklisted from every studio in Hollywood; he had nothing to lose.
But he didn t want to talk. He paced around my living room and made reference to a party we d all been at before the war--he had every reason to remember it well; it was his engagement party. That was all he had to say. Charles Landrieu was done talking for a while.
I told him to gain ten pounds and join the army. He did.
Let s talk about the night in question, the night I allegedly ruined a life or two, or three: Thomas Brodbeck s party celebrating the engagement of FWM Studios stars Charles Landrieu and Nell Parker, August 1939.
The guest list included a group of people whose lives would be altered by that night: Charles and Nell; Augustan Charters and myself; Margy Prescott and her notably absent husband, Hal Bingham; and Sophie Melrose, a young actress who only wanted to go to her first Hollywood party. Finally, there was the man who had not been invited but arrived anyway: Freddy Clarke.
When I told my brother, Seb, we d be stopping at a party that night, I might have intentionally withheld some details. It was his first day in Los Angeles, so the name Thomas Brodbeck meant little to him. There wasn t any reason why Sebastian O Shaughnessy, darling of the New York literati, should have
... mehr
had any idea who the FWM studio chief was, or even what a studio chief did. As soon as I began listing the names of actors and actresses, though, Seb understood.
We won t have to stay long? he asked.
An hour at the most, not even that, I said. I told him we had to say hello to Brodbeck and congratulate Charles and Nell on their pretend engagement. Public appearances like these were part of my contract with the studio.
I had convinced Seb to move to Hollywood on the pretense that I was a moderately successful actress who could land him a job screenwriting.
The thing is, I really was a moderately successful actress who could land him a job screenwriting. My only omission to my brother was that I had only three months left on my contract and FWM Studios didn t renew contracts for moderately successful actresses.
Anyway, you have to talk to Augustan, I said as I poured us each a glass of whiskey--mine on the rocks, his straight.
I don t know who that is.
You ll love him, I lied. He runs all the things at FWM that no one else has the time to run. I already told him you d be there. He s excited to meet you. I m certain he can get you a job.
As I began going up the stairs to change into my dress, Seb demanded that I wait a goddamn minute. Seb still had a heavy accent from our years growing up in Boston. His voice went up as he spoke to me, and for a moment I saw the young boy he had once been--the lanky awkwardness of his posture and the redness in his pale cheeks. Though we regularly wrote each other, I hadn t seen him in person for a long time. Between the two of us, I was the one who could afford to travel, and I hadn t left California since the early thir
We won t have to stay long? he asked.
An hour at the most, not even that, I said. I told him we had to say hello to Brodbeck and congratulate Charles and Nell on their pretend engagement. Public appearances like these were part of my contract with the studio.
I had convinced Seb to move to Hollywood on the pretense that I was a moderately successful actress who could land him a job screenwriting.
The thing is, I really was a moderately successful actress who could land him a job screenwriting. My only omission to my brother was that I had only three months left on my contract and FWM Studios didn t renew contracts for moderately successful actresses.
Anyway, you have to talk to Augustan, I said as I poured us each a glass of whiskey--mine on the rocks, his straight.
I don t know who that is.
You ll love him, I lied. He runs all the things at FWM that no one else has the time to run. I already told him you d be there. He s excited to meet you. I m certain he can get you a job.
As I began going up the stairs to change into my dress, Seb demanded that I wait a goddamn minute. Seb still had a heavy accent from our years growing up in Boston. His voice went up as he spoke to me, and for a moment I saw the young boy he had once been--the lanky awkwardness of his posture and the redness in his pale cheeks. Though we regularly wrote each other, I hadn t seen him in person for a long time. Between the two of us, I was the one who could afford to travel, and I hadn t left California since the early thir
... weniger
Autoren-Porträt von Lindsay Lynch
Lindsay Lynch
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lindsay Lynch
- 2023, Internationale Ausgabe, 352 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Doubleday
- ISBN-10: 0385547706
- ISBN-13: 9780385547703
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A wonderful, provocative novel about the way time changes how we see the world. Edie O'Dare is a failed Hollywood actress who reinvents herself as a gossip columnist in order to keep a roof over her head, only to discover that this is the job she's good at. Like our intrepid narrator, Do Tell manages to be both funny and substantive, breezy and wise. I stepped into the stream of the narrative and didn't look up until I came to the last page. --Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House
"Gossip columnist Edie O Dare has enemies and sources, but no friends in a Golden Age Hollywood whose gleam is tarnished by exploitation, cruelty and betrayal. Like a latter-day Cecil B. DeMille, Lindsay Lynch deftly directs her large cast of morally complex characters to illuminate issues of fame and notoriety as relevant now as they were almost a century ago."
--Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Horse
"There is little more alluring than the promise of secrets, and Do Tell is full of them--glamorous, tawdry, and human. Lindsay Lynch has created a rich portrait of the lives of early Hollywood's beautiful puppets and those holding their strings."
--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
"Luscious . . . Lynch . . . deftly walks a line here between telling a blunt 'Me Too' story and serving up plenty of Turner Classics movie glamour. . . In her best lines, Edie also channels the wit of a Dorothy Parker"
--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
"Masterfully shaped. . . a gripping narrative set largely in the pre-war years of Hollywood. It follows the long career trajectory of its protagonist, an actress who . . . finds a second act, which includes encounters with a sweeping panoply of movie stars and wannabees."
--Tom Hall, WYPR
"Ambitious . . . O Dare s voice resembles that of a hard-boiled, wisecracking private eye: a Sam Spade
... mehr
sister who operates within, and reports on, cutthroat Tinseltown antics."
--The Washington Post
"A noir-like tale of Hollywood s underbelly. . . If your best subject at trivia is Turner Classic Movies, if you go to conventions dressed like a starlet from Hollywood s gilded age, Do Tell is a must-read."
--The Associated Press
"Compelling"
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
In Do Tell Lindsay Lynch takes a glance back at golden-age Hollywood and captures the fizzy magic, the secret lives, and the deep, destructive misogyny within the industry s DNA. This is a wry, entertaining, and incisive debut.
--Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
This dazzling novel is a riveting exposé of the dream factory which will surprise readers at every turn. You won't be able to put it down.
--Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone
"[Lynch's] twisty take on the golden age of Hollywood offers something for everybody."
--Hollywood Reporter
Do Tell is an absolute marvel: page-turning yet thought-provoking, historical in its setting yet contemporary in its concerns. With a keen eye for period detail, Lindsay Lynch explores how the power of secrets were the secret to power in Hollywood s Golden Age. The result is a deeply moving, immensely satisfying, blockbuster of a debut novel."
--Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury Pictures Presents
"Lindsay Lynch has written a novel so thoroughly immersive, I looked up from its pages disoriented -- confused not to find myself amid the couture gowns and hushed secrets of old Hollywood. I'll tell every reader I know: I adored Do Tell."
-- Mary Laura Philpott, bestselling author of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
"Do Tell is a glittering, riot of a debut filled with tantalizing gossip, lavish parties and an insider s glimpse into a bygone era of Hollywood glamour. Lindsay Lynch brings the studio system to life with these unforgettable yet deeply complicated characters whose lives are caught at the crossroads of power and truth telling. This is a novel you won t want to miss."
--Kali Fajardo-Anstine, bestselling author of Woman of Light and Sabrina & Corina
"An electric novel about power and complicity in the Golden Age of Hollywood told through the eyes of Edith O Dare, a narrator as fearsome as she is fallible. In Do Tell, Lindsay Lynch masterfully uncovers a world in which gossip is currency and image is everything, laying bare the devastating consequences of secrets told and untold. Enthralling and utterly relevant."
--Jenny Tinghui Zhang, international bestselling author of Four Treasures of the Sky
"Stunning . . . Do Tell is a vivid novel of the early days of Hollywood glitz and glamour, and tells the story of one woman making her way in a world dominated by fame, power, secrets--and men."
--Shelf Awareness
"Sparkling, sharp. . . It s tempting to call Do Tell timely, but the chilling truth is that it feels timeless. . . With its insider-outsider narrator and dazzling cast of characters, Do Tell shares a kinship with The Great Gatsby."
--Chapter 16
"An intelligent story of Hollywood s Golden Age . . . the dialogue and Edie s narration are steeped in the rapid-fire rhythm of the era s films . . . Lovers of the silver screen will be drawn to this."
--Publishers Weekly
"Between the glittering descriptions of couture gowns and award shows, this scathing, retrospective #MeToo tale focuses on how people will protect famous, predatory men out of self-preservation. . . Readers looking for a novel that covers all the drama Hollywood has to offer, from its glitz to its evils, will find much to enjoy here."
--Booklist
"A clever first novel; it should be catnip to devotees of Golden Age Hollywood."
--Air Mail
"Entertaining . . . An intimate look at Hollywood's dark secrets."
--Kirkus
"Lynch offers a page-turning historical fiction as lavish as a Jay Gatsby party. Readers won t soon forget Edie O Dare, a failed Golden Age Hollywood starlet, who is one of the most striking narrators in recent memory. Lynch s language dazzles on every page."
--Debutiful
--The Washington Post
"A noir-like tale of Hollywood s underbelly. . . If your best subject at trivia is Turner Classic Movies, if you go to conventions dressed like a starlet from Hollywood s gilded age, Do Tell is a must-read."
--The Associated Press
"Compelling"
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
In Do Tell Lindsay Lynch takes a glance back at golden-age Hollywood and captures the fizzy magic, the secret lives, and the deep, destructive misogyny within the industry s DNA. This is a wry, entertaining, and incisive debut.
--Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
This dazzling novel is a riveting exposé of the dream factory which will surprise readers at every turn. You won't be able to put it down.
--Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone
"[Lynch's] twisty take on the golden age of Hollywood offers something for everybody."
--Hollywood Reporter
Do Tell is an absolute marvel: page-turning yet thought-provoking, historical in its setting yet contemporary in its concerns. With a keen eye for period detail, Lindsay Lynch explores how the power of secrets were the secret to power in Hollywood s Golden Age. The result is a deeply moving, immensely satisfying, blockbuster of a debut novel."
--Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury Pictures Presents
"Lindsay Lynch has written a novel so thoroughly immersive, I looked up from its pages disoriented -- confused not to find myself amid the couture gowns and hushed secrets of old Hollywood. I'll tell every reader I know: I adored Do Tell."
-- Mary Laura Philpott, bestselling author of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
"Do Tell is a glittering, riot of a debut filled with tantalizing gossip, lavish parties and an insider s glimpse into a bygone era of Hollywood glamour. Lindsay Lynch brings the studio system to life with these unforgettable yet deeply complicated characters whose lives are caught at the crossroads of power and truth telling. This is a novel you won t want to miss."
--Kali Fajardo-Anstine, bestselling author of Woman of Light and Sabrina & Corina
"An electric novel about power and complicity in the Golden Age of Hollywood told through the eyes of Edith O Dare, a narrator as fearsome as she is fallible. In Do Tell, Lindsay Lynch masterfully uncovers a world in which gossip is currency and image is everything, laying bare the devastating consequences of secrets told and untold. Enthralling and utterly relevant."
--Jenny Tinghui Zhang, international bestselling author of Four Treasures of the Sky
"Stunning . . . Do Tell is a vivid novel of the early days of Hollywood glitz and glamour, and tells the story of one woman making her way in a world dominated by fame, power, secrets--and men."
--Shelf Awareness
"Sparkling, sharp. . . It s tempting to call Do Tell timely, but the chilling truth is that it feels timeless. . . With its insider-outsider narrator and dazzling cast of characters, Do Tell shares a kinship with The Great Gatsby."
--Chapter 16
"An intelligent story of Hollywood s Golden Age . . . the dialogue and Edie s narration are steeped in the rapid-fire rhythm of the era s films . . . Lovers of the silver screen will be drawn to this."
--Publishers Weekly
"Between the glittering descriptions of couture gowns and award shows, this scathing, retrospective #MeToo tale focuses on how people will protect famous, predatory men out of self-preservation. . . Readers looking for a novel that covers all the drama Hollywood has to offer, from its glitz to its evils, will find much to enjoy here."
--Booklist
"A clever first novel; it should be catnip to devotees of Golden Age Hollywood."
--Air Mail
"Entertaining . . . An intimate look at Hollywood's dark secrets."
--Kirkus
"Lynch offers a page-turning historical fiction as lavish as a Jay Gatsby party. Readers won t soon forget Edie O Dare, a failed Golden Age Hollywood starlet, who is one of the most striking narrators in recent memory. Lynch s language dazzles on every page."
--Debutiful
... weniger
Kommentar zu "Do Tell"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Do Tell“
Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Do Tell".
Kommentar verfassen