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San Remo Drive

A Novel

Leslie Epstein

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English
Handsel Books
17 October 2006
""One of the four best Hollywood novels ever written.""

-Elizabeth Frank, New York

Times Book Review

""Epstein is a master storyteller at the height of his powers.""

-Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review

""Mr. Epstein effortlessly captures

the magic of a Hollywood childhood . . . San Remo Drive is a haunting and deeply

affecting book.""

-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Leslie Epstein's bestselling

new novel is composed of five interrelated episodes, in each of which a germ of childhood

experience is elaborated by the mature imagination of one of this country's most

distinguished writers of fiction. Richard Jacobi, the narrator of these reflections,

invites us to revisit the crucial experiences of his youth- driving to Malibu to

meet the man determined to marry his mother; on vacation in the Mohave, while his

father, the famed Hollywood figure Norman Jacobi and Lotte, his mother, must deal

with the terrible consequences of Norman's testimony before the House Committee on

Un-American Activities; exploring how a night in a bar and brothel in Tijuana becomes

linked to the spiritual growth of his brother, Bartie, who is surely destined to

be one of the most memorable and endearing characters in modern literature; viewing

a precarious initiation into sexuality that will mark forever the way an artist sees

the world and does his work.

This is, then, a novel written from memory, in the

same sense that the Schubert sonatas that attract Lotte to her baby grand are played

from memory-that is, by heart.
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Imprint:   Handsel Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   372g
ISBN:   9781590510674
ISBN 10:   1590510674
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Leslie Epstein, whose father and uncle, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein, wrote Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, and many other classics of the golden era of films, is the author of nine previous books of fiction, including King of the Jews and San Remo Drive, both published by Handsel Books/Other Press. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, where for many years he has directed the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.

Reviews for San Remo Drive: A Novel

One of the four best Hollywood novels ever written. - Elizabeth Frank, New York Times Book Review; Epstein is a master storyteller at the height of his powers. - Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review


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