Charles Elton Bücher
Charles Elton setzt sich in seinem Werk mit den komplexen Themen Ruhm, dessen Mechanismen und die verheerenden Folgen, die er für menschliche Leben haben kann, auseinander. Sein Roman, inspiriert von der Geschichte des Sohnes von A. A. Milne, untersucht, wie der Ruhm von Kindern zu einer Last werden kann, und verortet diese Idee in einem modernen Kontext. Elton verknüpft meisterhaft die Schicksale seiner Charaktere und zeigt, wie Individuen mit der Welt der Medien und des Verlagswesens verflochten werden. Sein Stil ist analytisch und doch fesselnd, da er die Psychologie seiner Charaktere und ihren Kampf gegen äußere Einflüsse aufdeckt. Mit seinem Hintergrund in Verlagswesen und Fernsehen bietet Elton eine nuancierte Darstellung davon, wie fiktive Welten ein Eigenleben entwickeln können und welche tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen dies hat.
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Examines and re-evaluates the life and career of the director of the critically acclaimed film "The Deer Hunter," as well as 1980's "Heaven's Gate," the most notorious cinematic bomb of all time
Mr Toppit
- 352 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
And out of the Darkwood Mr Toppit comes, and he comes not for you, or for me, but for all of us. When The Hayseed Chronicles, an obscure series of children's books, become world-famous millions of readers debate the significance of that enigmatic last line and the shadowy figure of Mr Toppit who dominates the books. The author, Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter mown down by a concrete truck in Soho, never reaps the benefits of the books' success. The legacy passes to his widow, Martha, and her children - the fragile Rachel, and Luke, reluctantly immortalised as Luke Hayseed, the central character of his father's books. But others want their share, particularly Laurie, the overweight stranger from California, who comforts Arthur as he lies dying, and has a mysterious aganda of her own that changes all their lives. For buried deep in the books lie secrets which threaten to be revealed as the family begins to crumble under the heavy burden of their inheritance. Spanning several decades, from the heyday of the British film industry after the war to the cut-throat world of show business in Los Angeles, Mr Toppit is a riveting tale of the unexpected effects of sudden fame and fortune. Not since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! has a novel managed to capture a family and a society to such wonderfully funny and painful effect.
