Condition: Very Good for both book and dust jacket. Minor foxing.

The story told in this novel, the story of the creation of the film industry, an industry that changed the world, has never been told in fiction. It is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, narrated here by a man who is one of the most widely read novelists of the twentieth century.

We think it is the best, the most fulfilled, of all Howard Fast’s novels.

Author: Howard Fast

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover, 395 Pages, 22x14x3.5cm

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

Published: 1983

The Story:

Max Britsky lives in a small tenement apartment on New York’s lower east side. His father dies when he is twelve. The eldest of five siblings, he takes on the burden of supporting his family.

He is clever and manipulative, and ultimately he becomes more and more successful in the entertainment business, which, in his world, consists of vaudeville houses and ten-minute silent moving pictures, viewed in nickelodeons.

He always seems to see the next big thing with uneducated prescience. By the time he is in his twenties, he is a millionaire. After conquering the theater scene in New York, he ventures out to California, to an unpaved dirt road town called Hollywood. There, along with a handful of other budding moguls, he starts a major studio.