Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies, but he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that led to the abrupt end of his career in 1922. Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity-until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind. The carefully restrained voice of its narrator recalls Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.''-Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize winner ''This is a riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel.''-Mary Yukari Waters Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today.''-Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty '' The Age of Dreamingis a masterpiece of the sort that doesn't just seduce the reader-it leaves you transformed.
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