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Sex and Genius

Conrad Williams

出版	Bloomsbury, 2003
ISBN	07475615249780747561521
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zbDNwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In Michael Lear's estimation, James Hilldyard is a Master of the British novel. Calling on this contemporary genius at home on the Italian Amalfi coast, Michael is disappointed not to acquire permission for the TV profile he wants to produce, but is bafflingly offered a job as the great man's literary secretary instead.
This break from his failing London media life seems just what Michael needs;until the beautiful actress Adela Fairfax arrives in Italy, followed by a pack of Hollywood hounds sniffing at her heels, all trying to secure the film rights for Hilldyard's as yet unpublished novel.
Hilldyard believes 'adaptation of any decent novel is vandalism' but the truth is that there is a terrible secret about himself contained within it. However Adela is convinced that she can get the rights, and will stop at nothing to secure them. Who or what are destroyed along the way are of no relevance where the Hollywood system is involved.
Sex and Genius is set on that high place where creative genius and the Hollywood System carry out their big gun fights. Williams knows the territory well and he plays out his drama there with enormous panache.