Week-End

(no dust jacket) [worn but intact, light staining to covers, diagonal red line of undetermined origin/purpose across bottom right corner of front cover, vintage bookseller's label (Unity Pegues, Hollywood, California) on rear pastedown]. The second novel by the future New Yorker drama critic and even-more future Hollywood screenwriter and producer. It's a satire about a group of people who gather at the country home of a bishop(!) for a weekend getaway from the city; the action begins at 6:10 p.m. Friday and ends at 10:40 a.m. the following Monday. The New York Times praised the book as "entertaining and thoughtful satire [with] clever dialogue," characterizing it as "a delightfully deft study of a 'society' which has neither meaning nor direction." Brackett would go on to publish three more novels, the last of which appeared after he had already decamped for Hollywood, where he was eventually thrown into a screenwriting partnership with Billy Wilder that yielded such classics as NINOTCHKA, THE LOST WEEKEND and SUNSET BLVD.; after the pair split up, he went on to a significant career as a producer and sometimes-writer at Twentieth Century-Fox (NIAGARA, TITANIC, THE KING AND I, THE WAYWARD BUS and others).

Product Info

Publisher: Robert M. McBride & Company

Year: 1925

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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