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Home, in the imagination of film critic James Sale, is a haven called Miniverland where life runs sweetly to the rules of a million movies. Successful in his job, happily married to the beautiful Connie (a collage of 'the best features of Ingrid Bergman and Dorothy Maguire, with just a dash of Angie Dickinson') he is unprepared for a sexual embarrassment which brutally tests the validity of every myth he has absorbed through years spent in the plush darkness. Suddenly he finds himself at risk in a situation where rules no longer apply and where the alternatives - an affair with Liz Spanier, a young photographer and occasional actress in blue movies; a brush with Dolly Bean, one of Miniverland's merry widows; and an encounter with Serena Kidd, the sexually ambiguous wife of a top comic - lead him ever deeper into pain and compromise. 'A Cast of Thousands' is a novel which sounds the gulf that lies between life as it is and life as we wish it to be. It is also a sardonic and profoundly truthful account of love and marriage for a generation which confuses shadow with substance. It will appeal to everyone who loves movies and alert anyone who has tried to live them.
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0575021306
- ISBN 13 9780575021303
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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