Dance with the Devil - Softcover

Douglas, Kirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446361917 ISBN 13: 9780446361910

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

Based on the 1991 Random House book.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Readers of Douglas's autobiography, The Ragman's Son (LJ 10/15/88), will speculate on the parallels in his first novel, which also chronicles the rise to fame of a Russian-Jewish emigre in Hollywood moviedom. The first half of the book alternates chapters about Moishe, who becomes director Danny Dennison, with the story of Luba, a Polish refugee who uses sex as a survival tool. She is a London prostitute when she first encounters the successful but unhappy protagonist, and he is at once captivated by her honest charm and the stories she tells about her hardknocks past. Luba makes Danny realize that he has prostituted his talent and denied a long-suppressed secret. This awkward attempt at fiction is devoid of both style and substance, but public libraries should anticipate high demand from the legion of Douglas's fans. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/90.
-Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Hollywood producer Danny Dennison, 55, keeps his Jewish birthright a secret and bitterly endures the dissolution of his joyless marriage; fortunately, he falls for a quintessential whore-with-a-heart-of-gold whose unconditional love allows him to own up to his identity. PW lamented Douglas's reliance on cliches to put flesh on most characters but called this "a sometimes spellbinding, solidly commercial tale."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0446361917
• ISBN 13: 9780446361910
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368