Indecent Proposal - Softcover

Jack Engelhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451175182 ISBN 13: 9780451175182

Publisher: Signet / Penguin Books, 1993

Synopsis

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Now on Kindle! Refreshed! Jack Engelhard's "Indecent Proposal" (first published 1988) remains one of the most famous novels around the world. The novel was translated into more than 22 languages and sold millions of copies from continent to continent, establishing it as an international classic.

Hollywood (in 1993) then turned Engelhard's high-concept moral dilemma drama into a box office smash. Over $266 million worth of tickets were sold worldwide from a Paramount movie of the same name starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore.

Though Hollywood only skimmed the surface of Engelhard's masterpiece, the theme is eternal, even biblical - temptation! The plot that has riveted the world's readers and moviegoers? A destitute couple try their luck in an Atlantic City casino. The wife, Joan, is utterly gorgeous. She attracts the attention of an oil rich sultan who can buy anything he sets his eyes on.

Can he buy people? Can he "buy" Joan? To find out, read this Kindle edition of "Indecent Proposal" that has entertained, provoked and captivated millions to this day.

"Precise, almost clinical language...is this book fun to read? You betcha!" The New York Times

About this title

From the Publisher:

This edition contains a new introduction by the author revealing the controversy behind the novel that Hollywood tried to "Californicate."

From the Author:

Let’s begin with a quick game of Jeopardy...

Answer: “The sanctity of marriage versus the love of money, the Jew versus significant non-Jews such as shiksas and sheiks, skill versus luck, materialism versus spirituality, Israel versus the Arab countries, the past versus the future, and the religious world versus the secular one.”

Question: What is Indecent Proposal?

Both of the above come from a book review in the New York Times. But if I’m guessing right, you’re saying, is not the movie that I saw!

Exactly. It happens to be the book, this book, that you likely never read.

The Los Angeles Daily News was first (by no means the last) to take up the cause. A reporter wanted to know if I was being shoved aside, given that even while the movie was breaking box office records and was the talk of the nation, the novel that started it all was hard—no, nearly impossible—to find. “Is your novel being suppressed?” I was asked—suppressed because the movie is so different. Is there conspiracy afoot to deflect criticism from the fact that book and movie under the same name are so different, especially since the book deals with “primal” issues— that wonderful word used by the New York Times in its book review.

Maybe. Maybe the book was suppressed. Maybe it wasn’t. I don’t know. I only know that when it was republished from hardcover to softcover as a movie tie-in, it was not readily available from book store to book store. The fact is that while the movie received a roaring publicity campaign, the novel that originated it was practically kept secret.

Along came Rob Huberman of ComteQ Publishing, who asked, “Do people know about the hidden themes of your novel? Do people think the movie said it all?” Of course I said no to all that, and he responded, “So let’s do it right this time.”

Finally, here’s the banner so many newspapers wanted in the first place – At Last, The Controversial Worldwide Bestseller Hollywood And New York Tried To Hush!

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet / Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0451175182
• ISBN 13: 9780451175182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304