Description

A wonderful new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-Winner: a large, wise, bawdy story of war and love, politics and gender, companionship and betrayal—and the appeal of the films. With Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron as her design, Jane Smiley takes us through five major, memorable times in the Hollywood hills.It may be the morning-after the 2003 Academy Awards. Max—an Oscar-winning writer/director whose popularity has waned—and his fan, Elena, luxuriate during sex, still tired from final night’s red-carpet celebrations. They're talking about love, talking about films, and talking about the conflict in Iraq, lately started.