Sign-In
Cart
The Enigma of Pyotr
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Petersfriends.com
Published: Oct 30 2023
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the aftermath of the Crash of '29, 'The Enigma of Pyotr' opens in the bankrupt Beverly Hills Hotel, where Pyotr Alexis Belanopek, a struggling screenwriter, embarks on a unique journey. Tasked with crafting a screenplay about World War I, Pyotr unwittingly finds himself writing his own life story. The narrative seamlessly intercuts between his script and the real lives of the hedonistic actors and actresses portraying his characters. Against the backdrop of Hollywood's glamor and the looming threat of the Nazis and World War II, the intricate dance between fiction and reality, personal history and the broader narrative of historical events, is a cliff hanging blend of screenwriting drama and contemporary intrigue.
Also from
Beale, Peter
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback