{"product_id":"cheat-and-charmer-book-elizabeth-frank-9780812969610","title":"Cheat and Charmer","description":"Twenty-five years in the making, a first novel that has already been compared to \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCheat and Charmer\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to be one of the most admired literary debuts of the season. Written by Pulitzer Prize--winning biographer Elizabeth Frank, \u003ci\u003eCheat and Charmer \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterful and richly detailed work of fiction-a Tolstoyan novel of marriage, sisterhood, art, politics, compromise, and betrayal set in Hollywood, New York, Paris, and London of the 1950s.\u003cbr\u003eDinah Lasker grew up in the shadow of her sister, Veevi, a stunning beauty and emerging star who enchanted both the Hollywood set and its imported New York literati. But Veevi's home was also a hotbed of political activity, owing to her marriage to Stefan Ventura, a Bulgarian filmmaker and high-profile Communist. At the end of the 1930s, when things go badly for him in Hollywood, Ventura and Veevi flee to Paris and into the lengthening shadows of Hitler and fascism.\u003cbr\u003eCut to 1951, when Dinah is subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, which threatens to ruin her husband, Jake, and derail his successful career as a Hollywood writer, producer, and director unless she cooperates. Can Dinah live with herself if she names Veevi-whom she both loves and loathes-in order to save her husband and preserve her idyllic married life? The choices Dinah makes set in motion an unforgettable chain of events. Like Anna Karenina, Dinah must face the consequences of her choices and her needs.\u003cbr\u003eWritten with elegance and style, \u003ci\u003eCheat and Charmer \u003c\/i\u003egrippingly dramatizes the interior lives of Dinah, Veevi, Jake, and their social circle. Spanning decades and following complex characters on their impassioned pursuits through America and Europe, this is a novel of grand scope, about love and deception, idealism and accommodation, the lies we live, and the truths we cannot avoid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362911260945,"sku":"CIN0812969618G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812969618.jpg?v=1751264468","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/cheat-and-charmer-buch-elizabeth-frank-9780812969610","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}