Hold Fast Your Crown by Yannick Haenel

Hold Fast Your Crown by Yannick Haenel

A man writes an enormous screenplay on the life of Herman Melville. Not a single producer is interested in it. One day, someone gives him the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, legendary director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. A meeting is arranged in New York, and Cimino reads the manuscript. What follows is a series of crazy adventures through Ellis Island, the Musee de la Chasse in Paris, a lake in Italy. We run into Isabelle Huppert, Diana the hunting goddess, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a diabolical neighbor, and two shady characters with conspicuous mustaches. There's also a pretty PhD student, an unpleasant concierge, and an aggressive ma tre d' who looks like Emmanuel Macron... This improbable, insightful tale bridges the divide between cinema and literature in unexpected ways that are at once gratifying and profound.

Yannick Haenel is the author of several novels, including Introduction � la mort fran�aise and �voluer parmi les avalanches. The Messenger, published in France under the title Jan Karski, won the Prix Interalli� and the Prix du roman FNAC in 2009. In Paris in 1997, he cofounded the avant-garde literary journal Ligne de risque.

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator. She has published more than a dozen book-length translations, including Jean Bott�ro's The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia and Catherine Cusset's Life of David Hockney.

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ISBN 13	9781590519752
ISBN 10	1590519752
Title	Hold Fast Your Crown
Author	Yannick Haenel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Other Press LLC
Year published	2019-04-02
Number of pages	336
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