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The Manhattan Beach project

Peter Lefcourt · 2005

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Falling on hard times in the years after winning an Academy Award, Charlie Berns meets a mysterious former CIA agent at a Debtors Anonymous meeting and sells an idea for an extreme reality television series about an Uzbek warlord, with unexpected consequences.

First sentence: Three years, nine months and twenty-four days after winning an Academy Award for producing the best picture of the year, Charlie Berns was sitting on a folding chair in a second-floor room at the Brentwood Unitarian Church Annex listening to a woman with smeared lipstick and a bad postnasal drip tell him, and the other thirteen people in the room, that she had just charged $1,496 worth of cashmere

Book details

Year
2005
Language
English
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Editions
3
Pages
352
ISBN
9781416572763

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