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  • Hollywood: A Novel

  • Narratives of Empire, Book 5
  • By: Gore Vidal
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Summary

It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives - West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator’s mistress - so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics.

“Hollywood shimmers with the illusion of politics and the politics of illusion.” --Chicago Sun-Times

“A wonderfully literate and consistently impressive work of fiction that clearly belongs on a shelf with Vidal’s best.” --The New York Times Book Review
©2019 Gore Vidal (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Lots of politics for a book called Hollywood

It shouldn't be a surprise that a Vidal novel is preoccupied with politics, but the storyline actually set in Hollywood is practically a subplot. The narration is awesome, especially when one of the author surrogates bumps into Charlie Chaplin in a sauna, but that's as irrelevant to the plot as most of the book.

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