Jack London in Paradise
Paul Malmont, . . Simon & Schuster, $25 (386pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-4722-8
The salad days of Hollywood intersect with Jack London's final days in this spirited but loquacious imagining of the author's volatile relationship with real-life actor and filmmaker Hobart Bosworth. It's 1916, and Bosworth, director of half a dozen highly successful films of London's works, is desperate for a hit to bail out his sinking studio. His only recourse is to travel to Hawaii and ask his estranged friend for an original script to film. London offers a somewhat unlikely adaptation of his prehistoric epic,
Reviewed on: 10/13/2008
Genre: Fiction
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