Double feature a novel

Sam Dolan is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan -- a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Al...

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Main Author: King, Owen
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2013.
Edition:1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Summary:Sam Dolan is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan -- a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam's dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam's eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can't stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster--From publisher's description.
Physical Description:ix, 419 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781451676891 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1451676891 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781451676907 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
1451676905 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Owen King is the author of the acclaimed novel The Curator , Double Feature, and We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories . He lives in upstate New York with his family.