The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel- ARC
Language: English
Published by Liveright a division of W W Norton & Co., 2018
Series: Book 1 of 1 - Kill My Mother
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: ALEXANDER POPE, Kent, CT, U.S.A.ALEXANDER POPE
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Advanced Review Copy. Concluding Feiffer's "Kill My Mother" trilogy. 149 pages.Letter from Peter Miller Director of Publicity at Liveright, announcing the release of this book.Includes a publicity booklet with full page color illustrations.Feiffer won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as North-America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. Never has the incomparable Jules Feiffer been more eerily prophetic than in this stunning finale to his best-selling Kill My Mother trilogy. '"Hollywood is haunted. 1953. Ghosts abound. In particular, the ghost of Detective Sam Hanniganâ murdered in Bay City twenty-two years earlier by Addie Perl, the hired assassin who then bought a Hollywood nightclub with her blood money. Among the nightclub's favored clientele is Sam's widow, Elsie. Blinded by a Japanese bullet while on a USO tour in the South Pacific, Elsie has been reinvented into "Miss Know-It-All," a Hollywood gossip columnist. But blind Elsie is haunted by the ghost of her husband, Sam, who asks her accusingly: "If Miss Know-It-All knows so much, why can't she find Cousin Joseph, the man who had me killed?" Hollywood is haunted. Spooks abound. Agents Shoen and Kline, investigators for the House Un-American Activities Committee, manipulate the blacklisted, buxom, over-the-hill starlet-turned-hooker Lola Burns into working for them and naming the names she had once refused to betray. Hollywood is haunted. Communist screenwriters Oz McCay and Faye Bloom are noisily plotting, boozing, and laughing their way toward their impending disaster. Hollywood is haunted. As an inside joke, writer-director Annie Hanniganâ Sam and Elsie's daughterâ comes up with the idea of a "Ghost Script" that may or may not exist but is rumored to expose the inside story of the Hollywood blacklist and the names of its undercover masterminds, most notably the reclusive philanthropist Lyman Murchison, a superpatriot with a dirty secret. Hollywood is haunted. Stumbling his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-talking, nebbishy good guy who's never been in a fight he didn't lose. Archie's single aim is to live up to the memory of the ghost who haunts him: Detective Sam Hannigan. Trail along with Archie into the middle of this muddle, as he tracks the arc of history and finds that it has rounded itself off into a circular firing squad. In this antic and brilliant assault on our past and present, Jules Feiffer shows us, once and for all, that if there's one thing Americans hate, it's learning from past mistakes. Every twenty years or so, a new generation must address new biases and injustices that are virtually identical to past biases and injustices. But who remembers? Exposing the tragically cyclical path of American history, Jules Feiffer pens the final installment to a noir masterpiece.' 149 pp.…
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- Title
- The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel- ARC
- Author
- Feiffer, Jules
- Publisher
- Liveright a division of W W Norton & Co.
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1631493132
- ISBN 13
- 9781631493133
- Illustrator
- Feiffer, Jules
- Edition
- Special Edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Kill My Mother
- Seller catalogs
- comic books, mystery
"At 89 Jules Feiffer could be forgiven for putting his feet up, but the veteran Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist has been busy in recent years on his Kill My Mother trilogy and this, the final volume, is a testament to the man's feisty energy." The Herald
Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale. In The Ghost Script, he plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts, Reds, pinkos, starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph", running a back-channel clearing house for victims of the entertainment world's purge. Stumbling his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-talking good guy, always a step or two behind, in this story of plots, counterplots and goon violence. In this satiric assault on America's past and present, Feiffer shows how the arc of history evolves from starry dreams to thwarted and sold-out dreams.
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