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Leon de Winter | De Hemel van Hollywood | English Title: The Sky of Hollywood<br>Novel, 368 Pages

Novel, Paperback
368 Pages
Published in Jan. 2000

ISBN 978-3-257-23143-4
€ (D) 10.90 / (A) 11.30
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Leon de Winter
De Hemel van Hollywood

Published by Diogenes as Der Himmel von Hollywood
English Title: The Sky of Hollywood

When the once-promising actor Tom Green returns to Hollywood after serving a prison sentence, he has only two hundred dollars in his pocket and virtually no prospects. By chance, he meets two acting colleagues who, like himself, have known better days: the sixty-year-old Jimmy Kage, and the seventy-year-old Oscar Award winner Floyd Benson who is now earning his living installing burglar alarms. During a nocturnal pub crawl, the three men come across a horribly mutilated corpse whom one of them knows. Floyd Benson suspects that the death of Tino, the petty gangster, has something to do with the Mafia and huge sums of money. The three likeable Losers plan the coup of their lives – which involves acting in all seriousness, this time without textbook or camera.

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»›Der Himmel von Hollywood‹ is one of the best books de Winter has written so far. An ingenious plot, first-class composition and timing, this is an exciting and stylistically accomplished thriller with a balanced interaction between content, form and space. A book in which imagination finally and definitely overtakes reality.«Haarlems Dagblad

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