Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story - Couverture rigide

Barker, Clive

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060182970 ISBN 13 : 9780060182977

Editeur : Harper, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Barker Clive

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Hollywood has made a star of Todd Pickett. But time is catching up with him. He doesn't have the perfect looks he had last year. After plastic surgery goes awry, Todd needs somewhere to hide away for a few months while his scars heal.

As Todd settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon -- a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on any map -- Tammy Lauper, the president of his fan club, comes to the City of Angels determined to solve the mystery of Todd's disappearance. Her journey will not be an easy one. The closer she gets to Todd the more of Coldheart Canyon's secrets she uncovers: the ghosts of the A-list stars who came to the Canyon for wild parties; Katya Lupi, the cold-hearted, nowforgotten star for whom the Canyon was named, who is alive and exquisite after a hundred years; and, finally, the door in the bowels of Katya's dream palace that reputedly open up to another world, the Devil's Country. No one who has ever ventured to this dark, barbaric corner of hell has returned without their souls shadowed by what they'd seen and done.

Mingling an insider's view of modern Hollywood with a wild streak of visionary fantasy, Coldheart Canyon is a book without parallel: an irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that have made Clive Barker's books and films a phenomenon worldwide.

Revue de presse :

“[Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the farthest reaches of the imagination.... ” (Washington Post)

“Barker has an unparalleled talent for envisioning other worlds.” (Maxine Hong Kingston, Washington Post Book World)

“A writer of stunning imagination.” (Atlanta Journal & Constitution)

“One of our most inventive and risk-taking writers.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“...in the language of fear, he has no equals.” (Time Out (London))

“Barker possesses one of contemporary fictions’ wildest and finest imaginations.” (Kirkus)

“Unfolds with genuine momentum, in the vigorous style of a fully engaged storyteller.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times)

“Wickedly enjoyable... endlessly entertaining...a powerhouse of a novel... irresistible.” (USA Today)

“Barker’s vision is impressively bizarre—think Anne Rice meets Jacqueline Susann.” (People)

“When you’re in the mood for forgettable escapism, nobody does it better.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060182970
• ISBN 13: 9780060182977
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 688