Hollywood Savage
A Novel
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A scalding exploration of love, marriage, fidelity, and betrayal.
“Meet me at five,” the voice said on the answering machine. Four ordinary words yet, when heard by the wrong person, enough to change the course of a marriage.
Marooned in Hollywood while writing a screenplay based on his latest bestselling novel, Miles King records in his journals his escalating conviction that his glamorous wife, a New York-based journalist named Maggie, is having an affair with Miles’s favorite student.
Amidst the sun-buffed egos and the longing for connection and fame he encounters at every cocktail party and no-name bar in Hollywood, Miles finds unexpected comfort in an affair of his own with Lucy, a young mother whose open, eager mind sparks an irresistible passion in him. A potent brew of lust, guilt, anger, and betrayal, Miles’s journals reveal his constantly shifting emotional state and the perils he must navigate as his fantasies become increasingly hard to distinguish from reality.
In Hollywood Savage, acclaimed novelist Kristin McCloy probes one modern man’s psychological depths with stunning accuracy, and illuminates the ways men and women try desperately to reveal themselves to one another, while still always keeping a part of their hearts a secret.
Kristin McCloy was born in San Francisco and spent her childhood in Spain, India, and Japan. A graduate of Duke University, she is the author of the novels Velocity and Some Girls. Her novels have been published in more than fifteen countries. She currently lives in Oakland, California.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chaos ensues in McCloy s dizzying latest (after Some Girls) when a writer moves from New York City to L.A. to adapt his latest novel into a screenplay. Shortly after arriving in California, Miles King listens to an ambiguous voicemail message intended for his wife and begins to suspect that she, back in Manhattan, is having an affair. He uses the alleged affair as a rationale for acquiring a student mistress, Lucy, who, to make matters even more complicated, is married and has a three-year-old son. Miles s downward spiral picks up velocity he starts smoking again, dabbles in cocaine, cheats on Lucy and carries him further and further from redemption. Written in journal form, the story takes the reader deep into the mind of a self-destructively hedonistic man who, despite being very hard to like at times, makes an absolutely fascinating narrator. McCloy s raw prose and Miles s wild unpredictability will keep readers hooked as Miles flirts with a potentially catastrophic crash and burn.