Saturday, June 8, 2013

Book Spotlight and a Giveaway! Temptation by Douglas Kennedy


Temptation


I always wanted to be rich. I know that probably sounds crass, but it’s the truth. A true confession. 

Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he’s tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, big-time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television. Before you can say “overnight success,” he’s the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. 

Suddenly a major player, he finds that he’s reinventing himself at a great speed, especially when it comes to walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. But David’s upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait and suddenly finds himself inadvertently entering into a Faustian pact and an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle. ~~ synopsis from Goodreads

About the author


Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan in 1955. He studied at Bowdoin College, Maine and Trinity College, Dublin, returning to Dublin in 1977 with just a trenchcoat, backpack and $300. He co-founded a theatre company and sold his first play, Shakespeare on Five Dollars a Day, to Radio 4 in 1980. In 1988 he moved to London and published a travel book, Beyond the Pyramids. His debut novel The Dead Heart was published in 1994.


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7 comments:

  1. Thanks for this lovely giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  2. sounds like a fun one! - regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com

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  3. Temptation of fame, sound like it could happened to anyone. Looking forward reading it ;p

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  4. Sounds really good. I love novels about Hollywood. Thanks for having the giveaway.

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  5. Thanks for the chance to win this nice book. ☺

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