Out of Competition

Out of Competition by Lew Collins

Demonstrators protest for democracy at the Renne-Sur-Mer annual film festival, kidnapping a Hollywood producer while a Russian impresario's shark falls from a helicopter out in the bay, and the festival's deputy usurps his boss's position.

Chaos headlines a year to forget or the one to remember. People who should win don't. Those who shouldn't do. Nobody knows anything, everyone off the air, out to lunch, or simply...Out of Competition

From the author of Uncorrected Proof - a new novel on film under siege in the south of France -winner of the 2023 Kenneth Patchen Award

Praise for Collins's previous work!

With tongue in cheek humor and a sly poke at genre fiction, literary untouchables and the publishing industry this book seems tailor made for smart praise.... Making publishing a life and death enterprise is a nice conceit that allows all the tropes of detective and spy fiction to come into play and gives it much of its kicky fun. Bravo! - PAUL DURAN, LA DIRECTOR & WRITER (FLESH SUITCASE AND THE DOGWALKER)

I found the book very refreshing...very readable but also so postmodern and referential. I delighted in the book's sources. - RICHARD OLAFSON, EDITOR, PACIFIC RIM REVIEW

It reads like a splendidly maintained & protracted metafictional elaboration of the climactic shoot-out in the fun-fair corridor of mirrors at the end of Orson Welles's 'Lady from Shanghai'. - TOM GIBBONS, PAINTER AND WRITER OF ROOMS IN THE DARWIN HOTEL

Lew Collins is the writer of three novels, and one work of non-fiction.His current novel Out of Competition was awarded the Kenneth Patchen Award forthe Innovative Novel, 2023, published by JEF Books in 2024.Uncorrected Proof was published by ElephantEars Press, 2008.He lives and writes in France.

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