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''Stylish and stimulating'' The Times

Ageing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears an eminent author is writing his biography, Stone siezes the chance of immortality. But painful memories and suppressed scandals soon threaten to destroy the carefully-constructed fiction of his life. Inspired by Len Deighton''s own experiences of the film industry, Close-Up is a brilliant exposé of the sleaze, venality and betrayals of the studio machine.

''The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing ... the power of the book is undoubted'' Evening Standard



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The film industry is in many ways the ideal subject for Mr Deighton's talents. * Times Literary Supplement *

Immense skill ... a stylish and stimulating performance.

* The Times *

The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing world of the films with its parties, its highly coloured characters ... The power of the book is undoubted.

* Evening Standard *

CloseUp Penguin Modern Classics

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 September 2021
      ISBN-13 9780241505328
      978-0241505328
      ISBN-10 0241505321
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Stylish and stimulating'' The Times

      Ageing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears an eminent author is writing his biography, Stone siezes the chance of immortality. But painful memories and suppressed scandals soon threaten to destroy the carefully-constructed fiction of his life. Inspired by Len Deighton''s own experiences of the film industry, Close-Up is a brilliant exposé of the sleaze, venality and betrayals of the studio machine.

      ''The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing ... the power of the book is undoubted'' Evening Standard



      Trade Review
      The film industry is in many ways the ideal subject for Mr Deighton's talents. * Times Literary Supplement *

      Immense skill ... a stylish and stimulating performance.

      * The Times *

      The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing world of the films with its parties, its highly coloured characters ... The power of the book is undoubted.

      * Evening Standard *

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