![]() ![]() The bizarre images of Natalie Wood starring as the titular character in a movie version of the novel and the fulsome blurb shouting out “-the happiest, saddest, sexiest Hollywood novel of all!” were a bit off-putting, but the first page grabbed me and pulled me into the story and never let me go until the nebulous but satisfying conclusion. ![]() The first book, a novel by Gavin Lambert, a British-born author who moved to California in the 1950s and had considerable acclaim as a screenplay writer, was much better than I had anticipated from its cover appearance. Luckily they were both so very strongly voiced that I managed to focus on each as it deserved. I recently put myself in the mildly surreal situation of simultaneously reading two very different books set in the same location and covering a similar time period. ![]()
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