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Alfred Hayes is one of the secret masters of the twentieth century novel, a journalist and scriptwriter and poet who possessed an immaculate ear and who wrote with razorsharp intelligence about passion and its payback. My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you're only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. She's a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. She's just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: My Face For The World To See
• Author: Alfred Hayes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9781590176672
• ISBN: 1590176677
• ID: 01348733
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2013

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