My face for the world to see
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New York : New York Review Books/NYRB, 2013.
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Book
ISBN
9781590176672 (pbk. : alk. paper), 1590176677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xii, 131 pages ; 21 cm.
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC HAYES 1958 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New York Review Books/NYRB, 2013.
Language
English
ISBN
9781590176672 (pbk. : alk. paper), 1590176677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you're only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. She's a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. She's just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hayes, A. (2013). My face for the world to see . New York Review Books/NYRB.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985. 2013. My Face for the World to See. New York Review Books/NYRB.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985. My Face for the World to See New York Review Books/NYRB, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hayes, Alfred. My Face for the World to See New York Review Books/NYRB, 2013.
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