Hold Fast Your Crown

Name: Hold Fast Your Crown
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ISBN: 9781590519752

A Novel

Yannick Haenel, Teresa Fagan

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English

Other Press LLC
02 April 2019

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

An exasperated writer obsessed with American cinema embarks on an increasingly bizarre journey in this heady, engrossing novel.

A man writes an enormous screenplay on the life of Herman Melville. Not a single producer is interested in it. One day, someone gives him the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, legendary director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. A meeting is arranged in New York, and Cimino reads the manuscript. What follows is a series of crazy adventures through Ellis Island, the Musee de la Chasse in Paris, a lake in Italy. We run into Isabelle Huppert, Diana the hunting goddess, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a diabolical neighbor, and two shady characters with conspicuous mustaches. There's also a pretty PhD student, an unpleasant concierge, and an aggressive ma tre d' who looks like Emmanuel Macron... This improbable, insightful tale bridges the divide between cinema and literature in unexpected ways that are at once gratifying and profound.

By: Yannick Haenel
Translated by: Teresa Fagan
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781590519752
ISBN 10: 1590519752
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yannick Haenel is the author of several novels, including Introduction la mort fran aise and voluer parmi les avalanches. The Messenger, published in France under the title Jan Karski, won the Prix Interallie and the Prix du roman FNAC in 2009.In Paris in 1997, he cofounded the avant-garde literary journal Ligne de risque. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator. She has published more than a dozen book-length translations, including Jean Bottero's The Oldest Cuisine in the World- Cooking in Mesopotamia and Catherine Cusset's Life of David Hockney, forthcoming from Other Press.

Reviews for Hold Fast Your Crown: A Novel

Shortlisted for the 2017 Prix Goncourt A story of madness, art, alcohol and creativity...elegantly translated...vivid. --New York Times [A] unique, ecstatic novel. --Wall Street Journal The delightfully deluded protagonist of [Hold Fast Your Crown] juggles high and pop culture references with aplomb and a light touch...This is a stimulating novel, full of mischief and clever curveballs. --Publishers Weekly This wildly ambitious novel audaciously layers on metaphors that explore truth, film and art, and the essence of life. --Booklist Undeniably dazzling...a remarkable, sustained, high-wire act, a book that seems constantly to teeter on the edge of disaster without ever quite succumbing. Hold Fast Your Crown thrives on Haenel's buoyant prose. --New York Journal of Books Crazy, brilliant, addictive, and darkly poetic. --Le Figaro Wonderfully mad. --Le Parisien A wild novel, a blaze of astounding images. --L'Obs Intense...a book of visions, fantasies, and obsessions. --Le Monde Written on the razor's edge, in a perpetual tension, this profound and hallucinatory book is a firecracker. --Le Canard encha n A literary fever and fervor that speak volumes. --Lire