Slow Fade, Paperback

With a geography as diverse as the streets of Beverly Hills and the charnel grounds of India, a Mexican beach resort and the Russian Tea Room in New York City, this is a spare, eloquent, and deeply informed novel about the world of the movies. It is a profound and utterly convincing portrait of a man whose career and life has been devoted to the manipulation of imageson the screen and at the conference table, with actors and techniciansand the story of how, at the age of 71, he tries to divest himself of illusions and make peace with his demons and his past."

About the Author:

Rudolph Wurlitzer is the screenwriter of "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid "and "Two-Lane Blacktop." He is also the author of the novels "Flats," " Nog," " Quake," " "and "The Drop Edge of Yonder," and the travel diary "Hard Travel to Sacred Places." He lives in Hudson, New York.