Michael Tolkin, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87113-848-4
The author of the acclaimed, Robert Altman–adapted The Player
fumbles with this rambling chronicle of a man's life and the retribution he faces after committing a senseless murder. With money made through insurance fraud, jaded and...
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Michael Tolkin, Author . Grove $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1801-1
More than a decade has passed since Griffin Mill's murderous ascent to Hollywood power in The Player
. Now, with his career stalled and only $6 million in the bank, he is, by Hollywood standards, broke. The 12-year-old daughter he sired with his
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Michael Tolkin, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $17.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-87113-228-4
Set in the upper reaches of Hollywood moguldom, this powerful and disquieting first novel delivers the punch its strong beginning promises. Griffin Mill is a young, near-the-top executive at a major movie studio. His life is the movies, his life's...
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Michael Tolkin, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (273p) ISBN 978-0-688-12083-2
The author/screenwriter of The Player scores again in this drolly morbid novel, a gleefully vicious combination of satire and propulsive storytelling. The night before L.A. businessman Frank Gale is to take his wife, Anna, and daughter to Mexico, he
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Michael Tolkin, Author Avon Books $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-72299-0
A philandering husband is wracked with guilt when his wife and daughter are killed in a plane crash. (Aug.)
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Michael Tolkin. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2543-9
Tolkin’s new novel takes place in L.A., but it’s a far cry from the city of his famous Hollywood satire, The Player. This L.A., like the rest of the world, has been exposed to a North Korean bio-agent, NK3, whose effect is to erase memory. Now, four
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