IF THE OTHER GUY ISNT JACK by Base
Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a fiery life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, to get rich is glorious. In only a few years, China s capital is transformed. With considerable cultural and linguistic resources (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her intelligent, funny memoir (People), and readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver s seat (Elle).Ron Base has written for the Windsor Star, the Toronto Sunday Sun, and Maclean's magazine as a former newspaper journalist, magazine writer, and screenwriter. He's also contributed to a number of American magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. He wrote about movies for the Toronto Star, the country's largest circulation daily, for the greater part of a decade. In addition to his Sanibel Sunset Detective mystery novels, which have become Florida bestsellers, Base has recently released The Escarpment, the first of a series of mystery novels set in Milton. Base spent several years in Los Angeles, where he penned If The Other Person Isn't Jack Nicholson, I've Got The Part, a book about the history of cinema celebrity that was published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
He has also resided in Montreal, Paris, and Rome, and has authored numerous screenplays. Base is a Canadian native who was born, reared, and schooled. His wife, Kathy Lenhoff, and he split their time between Milton and Fort Myers, Florida, not far from Sanibel Island, the setting for his mystery novels. Ron's website is ronbase.com.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780809235285 |
| ISBN 10 | 0809235285 |
| Title | IF THE OTHER GUY ISNT JACK |
| Author | Base |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Contemporary Books Inc |
| Year published | 1994-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 319 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |