Coldheart Canyon - Hardcover

Barker, Clive

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060182970 ISBN 13: 9780060182977

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001

Synopsis

Aging star Todd Pickett flees to a secret corner of Hollywood to heal from a botched bout with plastic surgery and discovers that his newfound hideaway is in fact haunted by ghosts from the 1920s. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Barker's vision is impressively bizarre-think Anne Rice meets Jacqueline Susann." -- People

"A writer of stunning imagination." -- Atlanta Journal & Constitution

."..in the language of fear, he has no equals." -- Time Out (London)

"Riveting." -- The Baltimore Sun

Riveting. --The Baltimore Sun

."..in the language of fear, he has no equals."--Time Out (London)

"Barker possesses one of contemporary fictions' wildest and finest imaginations."--Kirkus

"Riveting."--The Baltimore Sun

"When you're in the mood for forgettable escapism, nobody does it better."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Wickedly enjoyable... endlessly entertaining...a powerhouse of a novel... irresistible."--USA Today

From the Back Cover:

Hollywood has made a star of Todd Pickett. But time is catching up with him. After plastic surgery goes awry, Todd needs somewhere to hide away for a few months while his scars heal.

As Todd settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon -- a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on a map -- Tammy Lauper, the president of his fan club, comes to the City of Angels determined to solve the mystery of Todd's disappearance. The closer Tammy gets to Todd the more of Coldheart Canyon's secrets she uncovers: the ghosts of A-list stars; Katya Lupi, the cold-hearted, now-forgotten star for whom the Canyon was named, alive and exquisite after a hundred years; and, finally, the door in the bowels of Katya's dream-palace that reputedly opens up to another world, the Devil's Country, where no one has returned without their souls shadowed by what they've seen and done.

Mingling an insiders' view of modern Hollywood with a wild streak of visionary fantasy, Coldheart Canyon is a book without parallel. An irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that has made Clive Barker's books and films a phenomenon worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060182970
• ISBN 13: 9780060182977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 676