Mr Wilder and Me
‘A love letter to the spirit of cinema’ Guardian
$32.42
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2021
Summary
A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors.
A young woman named Calista meets the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder in the sweltering summer of 1976. She knows nothing about him or his work, but this chance encounter will change her life for good. But while Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself - struggling to raise the money for his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241989715 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024198971X |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
A satisfyingly sweeping novel that still manages to push the form in new directions. As good as anything he’s written - a novel to cherish * Observer *An account of Billy Wilder’s later years that sweeps beautifully from Hollywood to Greece and London while all the time reflecting on the horrors of 20th-century Europe * FT, Best Books of 2020 *This elegiac novella is utterly charming, deeply poignant and ultimately uplifting. And yes, it would make a great film * Mail on Sunday *An insightful and moving story about how memories can or cannot be passed down through the generations – Kazuo Ishiguro
About The Author
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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