Sacred Monster - Hardcover

Westlake, Donald E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892961775 ISBN 13: 9780892961771

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 1989

Synopsis

Amoral Jack Pine becomes a Hollywood star, with his boyhood friend Buddy Pal ever silently watchful until Jack commits an unforgivable crime in the name of success

About this title

About the Author:

DONALD E. WESTLAKE has written numerous novels over the past thirty-five years under his own name and pseudonyms, including Richard Stark. Many of his books have been made into movies, including The Hunter, which became the brilliant film noir Point Blank, and the 1999 smash hit Payback. He penned the Hollywood scripts for The Stepfather and The Grifters, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. The winner of three Edgar awards and a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, Donald E. Westlake was presented with The Eye, the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Shamus Awards. He lives with his wife, Abby Adams, in rural New York State.

From Publishers Weekly:

Prolific Westlake displays yet again the originality that won him an Edgar Award for God Save the Mark and praise for books ranging from deadly thrillers through boffo comics. This novel is organized as a series of film flashbacks and forwards, with movie star Jack Pine speaking to an interviewer, Michael O'Connor. Stoned on drugs, Pine describes how his lifelong friend, Buddy Pal, helped him rise from lean beginnings to the top in Hollywood. A foreboding air pervades the recital of Pine's shameful past; though a habitual user of people, he remains unaware that Pal is using him. Sensing the character's moral rot, the reader is nevertheless seduced by the secrets spilling from Pine's unguarded tongue. Even with prescience, we are floored by the author's ingenious revelation of what happened and by the ultimate impact of O'Connor's role as a interviewer.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0892961775
• ISBN 13: 9780892961771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 231