Diamond Dogs - Softcover

Watt, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715630121 ISBN 13: 9780715630129

Publisher: Duck Editions, 2000

Synopsis

Named after David Bowie's celebrated seventies album, itself influenced by William Burrough's 'cut-up' writing method, this novel is both a thriller and an unconventional love story. Set against the glitter of Las Vegas and the isolation of Nevada, "Diamond Dogs" is a portrayal of a father and son, whose distant relationship is haunted by the past, and virtually unspoken. A local murder enquiry in which the son is questioned, a cover-up by his father, Chief of Police, and an outsider intent on discovering the truth, sets an edgy, taut pace to this page-turner. As the invstigation slowly closes in, the son anxiously questions his father's motives and his own sanity; a showdown exposes the truth, with cataclysmic consequences.

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About the Author

Alan Watt is a novelist and screenwriter. He has won a number of awards for his writing including France's 2004 Prix Printemps (best foreign novel) and the American Library Association's Alex Award. He was listed in The New York Time's New and Noteworthy book section, was a BookSense 76 pick, and a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" recipient. He recently adapted Diamond Dogs to the big screen for French film company Quad Films (The Intouchables), and is executive producing with Alex Pettyer (I am Number Four, Magic Mike) set to star. Mr. Watt first taught a summer creative writing workshop at UCLA in 1998, and has been teaching and lecturing on the creative process in L.A. and at colleges around the country ever since. He spent three years teaching storytelling to inner city high school students through the non-profit arm of Spoken Interludes. He founded L.A. Writers' Lab in 2002 as a place for writers to deepen their craft by learning to marry the rigor of story structure to the wildness of their imaginations. He has taught everyone from award-winning authors and A-list screenwriters, to journalists, poets, actors, professional athletes, war veterans, housewives, doctors, lawyers, television showrunners, and anyone else with a story to tell. In 2011 he started a two publishing companies. The 90-Day Novel Press is a publisher of books on writing. Along with The 90-Day Novel, he is also publishing The 90-Day Rewrite, The 90-Day Screenplay and The 90-Day Play, as well as My First Novel: Tales of Woe and Glory, which is a series of essays written by well-known novelists on the trials and tribulations of becoming a professional writer. All profits for My First Novel will be donated to PEN CEnter USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duck Editions
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715630121
• ISBN 13: 9780715630129
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 199