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Mr Wilder and Me
  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241989715
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

Mr Wilder and Me

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5 Nov 2020
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2 July 2021
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A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors.

A young woman named Calista meets the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder in the sweltering summer of 1976. She knows nothing about him or his work, but this chance encounter will change her life for good. But while Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself - struggling to raise the money for his next feature film - is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane.

In this novel - by turns, funny, tender and profoundly truthful - Jonathan Coe turns his gaze to the nature of time, fame, family and nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide it's time to let go?
  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241989715
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

JC

Also by Jonathan Coe

The Proof of My Innocence
Bournville
Middle England
The Broken Mirror
Number 11
Loggerheads And Other Stories
Marginal Notes, Doubtful Statements
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Praise for Mr Wilder and Me

A coming of age story which offers a fascinating insight into fame - and the perils of an industry in flux

Daily Telegraph

A satisfyingly sweeping novel that still manages to push the form in new directions. As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish

Observer

Effortlessly pleasurable and deceptively simple. Mr Wilder & Me doesn't lack resonance, yet stays light on its feet. The whole book feels like some marvellous party where you ricochet from one good conversation to another

The Times

One of my favourite writers . . . a thoughtful tender read

Good Housekeeping

An insightful and moving story about how memories can or cannot be passed down through the generations

Kazuo Ishiguro