Girl of My Dreams: A Novel, by Peter Davis
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Girl of My Dreams: A Novel, by Peter Davis
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A sweeping novel of Hollywood in the 1930s, Girl of My Dreams captures the essence of the Golden Age, when Hollywood became the global fantasy capital it remains today.
Screenwriter: The protagonist, Owen Jant, is a young screenwriter who comes of age in the 1930s at the intersection of Hollywood, the Depression, and the heyday of the Communist Party. At every turn, he is finding, and losing, his way.
Hollywood star: The glamorous Palmyra Millevoix - complex, gifted, mysterious - is a star more agitated than pleased by her fame. She could have been Grushenka, siren of the Karamazov saga, if she had not been a Hollywood star.
Studio mogul: Founder of Jubilee Pictures, Mossy Zangwill is not the last tycoon but the last of the old-style chieftains and first of the corporate moderns, clawing his way from a fatherless home in the Bronx to become by his mid-30s a rival to the Warners and Mayers, reigning kings of Hollywood. He would resemble Gatsby if Gatsby had gone west.
Propelled by the suicide of an innocent victim of studio politics, Owen falls in wacky, unpromising love with Palmyra, who in turn is relentlessly pursued by Mossy, the autocratic studio head. The drawing and redrawing of the triangle between screenwriter, star, and tycoon - intense, devious, seductive, combative - frames the education of Owen Jant. The story has an epic sweep that encompasses the swagger and flash of 1930s Hollywood and the Great Depression's plunder of the American dream. The cast of characters, like the narrative, is expansive: Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, the Prince of Wales, Edward G. Robinson, and the gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Walter Winchell all show up. So do murder, riot, sex, conspiracy, and deception.
In the shocking climax to Girl of My Dreams, Owen Jant himself, not without paying a high price, at last climbs the ladder to maturity. In part, Girl of My Dreams is lurid, juicy, and scandal driven.
Girl of My Dreams: A Novel, by Peter Davis- Amazon Sales Rank: #81183 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 1240 minutes
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. GREAT NOVEL OF 1930's HOLLYWOOD By Avid Hiker A finely detailed and deeply resonant story of Hollywood in the 1930's. There is the glamor, of course, which plays uneasily against the gray backdrop of America's Great Depression. But there is also the story behind the glamor: the struggle to create films that will provide entertainment for a country hungry for dreams of better times, of better places, of energy and light. Davis shows us the studio system at the time of its greatest power--bosses ruthlessly exploiting whoever they think might create stories that will bring them money. Caught up in this greed is an ever-shifting hierarchy of actors, directors, set-designers, stunt men, every one of them desperately wanting to be recognized by someone important--who is likely to be only temporarily powerful. Peter Davis knows this world: he grew up surrounded by people who had worked in and lived through this period. And, as an adult, he knows the film industry well, having directed "Hearts and Minds " an Oscar-winning documentary on the Vietnamese war. GIRL OF MY DREAMS is told by a writer who knows the history and the details of the business. GIRL is a great story that rings completely true. The quality of the writing is extremely high. The characters come so fully alive that the fictional figures are every bit as believable as the real ones the author brings in. And the narrator has so many fascinating stories to tell. This is a terrific novel about the film world of the 30's. I highly recommend it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great, Big, American Novel By Dean Miller (Full disclosure: Peter Davis is a friend. But you can see I have been pretty hard on friends’ books, so…)Hollywood. During the Depression. A most American backdrop for a story about America making it up – messily - as it goes along, probably getting it wrong, but riding lucky momentum. “Girl of My Dreams” may not be THE great American novel. But like Mark Twain or Toni Walker, Peter Davis has slyly laced a tumbling story with the reminder we can simultaneously dread learning our history and demand more of our future.The sheer joy in reading that this book delivers gives me hope we are not complete idiots. So long as we pay a little attention, we can find ourselves in this well-imagined world and demand something other than the bargain to which we have so far acquiesced.I’m easily bored by polemics and partisan nattering, so I think it’s safe to say you could read this book just for story, even if you don’t sympathize with striking dockworkers or hate studio bosses. As a novelist, Peter Davis turns out to be the best kind of show-off: he weaves big history around psychoanalysis. He minds the imperative to make something happen every so often. He spiels out song lyrics and movie treatments, dazzlingly, in service to characters about whom we give a damn, because we don’t merely admire them. Davis writes men and women clearly, in ways both archetypal and idiosyncratic. This is his FIRST novel? Hot Damn.Perhaps I show my age (54) but I love that there’s nothing now-now-now about this book. Rather, it reads like the distillations of a lifetime of close observation of humanity’s excesses and trivia, arranged not in a grand theory, but in a recognizable community of strugglers.Immature writers should read “Girl of My Dreams” with this caution: It’s one of those books like “Beloved” or “A Soldier of the Great War” that manages to be both so big and small that it could convince you there are gods and you’re not one of them. You can’t be trained to write like this. You either are or are not a Peter Davis, a Toni Morrison.Given American publishing’s cliquish cheerleading for prep-school-ivy-league-Breadloaf-groomed girls of the moment, it’s hard to imagine what they made of hoary-headed Peter Davis and his manuscript, if ever he sent it to Toffistan on the East River.If “Girl of My Dreams” gathers a great big audience, could it momentarily change our expectations of literary fiction in America? What if other publishers began looking for craft of this magnitude, rather than marketable children of the 1%?Thank God for Jane Friedman and her ilk at Open Road, who trusted readers want something more substantial than glib newness and irony.Great book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Davis creates a world that pulls you in By Tim Byrne Girl of My Dreams tells a story set in 1930's Hollywood of studio intrigue, political conflict and ambivolent interpersonal relationships. It's not a satire, though - Mr. Davis is far too generous and understanding of his characters' precarious positions within the studio hierarchy and the larger Depression-era world to judge them. He reports (or, in the character of screenwriter Owen Jant, recollects).Davis spins up a world that includes dusty back lots, opulent front offices and wisteria-encircled swimming pools and the machinery, dreams and delusions that keep it all going. He also creates characters, like actress/songwriter Palmyra Millevoix and studio head Mossy Zangwill that will remind you of real-life 30's counterparts, but become every bit Davis' personal creations.I'd imagine that world-building is (or can be) the hardest part of novel writing, especially when that world is far removed from our current one. Davis succeeds in creating a world, letting us in, and then making us care what happens to its inhabitants.Oh, and there's sex. And violence. And Communists.If you love this period (and I do), read it.
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