My Face For The World To See
  • Published: 31 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241342312
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 152

My Face For The World To See

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31 May 2018
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A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood

At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes' exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind.
  • Published: 31 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241342312
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 152
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Praise for My Face For The World To See

Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences

Paul Bailey, Guardian

The most vivid picture of Hollywood since Nathanael West's Day of the Locust

Nelson Algren

An exciting, engrossing work, written with beautiful economy and the sure skill of an artist who knows what he is doing ... Hayes has created characters that are the essence of human hopes and frailty

The New York Times Book Review

Like a delayed Fitzgerald (think The Last Tycoon) or an encounter with Pavese in an unexpected quarter, elegant in its hopelessness, or hopeless in its elegance: a real find

Michael Hofmann

More than fifty years later, Hayes strikes me as more interesting and honest than so many of those famous novelists of the era ... It is time we recognized him as the author of two novels no reader will easily forget

David Thomson

A masterpiece ... An insider's manual for all those who would aspire to fame, the ghostly glamour of the movies

Nick Lezard, Guardian