EAN: 9780241454671

MR WILDER AND ME - JONATHAN COE KARTONIERT (TB)

The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning  bestselling author of Middle England'As good as
anything he's written - a novel to cherish'
Observer_______________________________________________________In the heady summer of 1977  a
naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a
Greek island that has been turned into a film set  she finds herself working for the famed
Hollywood director Billy Wilder  about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends
in this glamorous  unfamiliar new life will change her for good.While Calista is thrilled with
her new adventure  Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the
wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood  he has financed his new film with German money  and when Calista
follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes  she finds herself joining him on a
journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.In a novel that is at once a tender
coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinema's most intriguing figures 
Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame  of family and the treacherous lure
of nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change  do you hold on for dear life or
decide it's time to let go?_______________________________________________________'A beautiful
bittersweet novel that is itself crying out for the silver screen treatment'
Scotsman'Effortlessly pleasurable and deceptively simple' The Times'Utterly charming  deeply
poignant and ultimately uplifting' Mail on Sunday'A charming  bittersweet book  and a perfect
reminder of art's value in stark times' Spectator

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