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The crossed-out notebook / Nicolás Giacobone ; translated by Megan McDowell.

The crossed-out notebook / Nicolás Giacobone ; translated by Megan McDowell.
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 Adult Fiction   Adult Lending . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 791216
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ISBN 9781472154521 (hardback)
Classification F GIAC
Personal Name Giacobone, Nicolás
Uniform Title Cuaderno tachado.
Title The crossed-out notebook / Nicolás Giacobone ; translated by Megan McDowell.
Production & Copyright Details London : Corsair, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description 247 pages ; 21 cm.
Content type text
Note "Originally published in 2018 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U. as El cuaderno tachado"--Title page verso.
Translated from the Spanish.
Summary Note Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. The Crossed Out Notebook is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day. The clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, The Crossed Out Notebook is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.
Subject - Topical Term Screenwriters -- Fiction
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction
Motion picture authorship -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name Argentina -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Psychological fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name McDowell, Megan translator.
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