The Return of the Player by Michael Tolkin

The Return of the Player by Michael Tolkin

Griffin Mill, the savage anti-hero of The Player, returns in this piercing satire of twenty-first century Hollywood. When we last saw film executive Griffin Mill, fifteen years ago, he had just got away with murder. Now he's fifty-two, and down to his last $6 million. Divorce and stress have made him impotent, he's sure that global warming is going to destroy the planet - and his career has stalled. He needs to get out of Hollywood. But Mill needs an escape route, a safe haven - a private island somewhere in the south pacific with an airstrip and high ground. He has one last, desperate plan. He will convince almost-billionaire Phil Ginsberg (who aspires to 'really savage wealth') to join him for one final project - a film about the thing Hollywood understands best: money. The Return of the Player is a bril­liant, incisive and candid satire of contemporary society spinning out of control.

Tolkin remains impressive as a scorched-earth social satirist-- Janet Maslin * New York Times *
A wicked fever dream of a novel. -- Tom Nolan * San Francisco Chronicle *
Tolkin utterly captures the most salient quality of life in Hollywood: the bowel-shaking fear that underlies everything. -- Seth Greenland * Los Angeles Times *

Michael Tolkin is the author of The Player, Among the Dead and Under Radar. He wrote the screenplay for the Robert Altman film The Player and wrote and directed The Rapture and The New Age.

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ISBN 13	9781843545590
ISBN 10	1843545594
Title	The Return of the Player
Author	Michael Tolkin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2007-07-12
Number of pages	256
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