My Hollywood Memoir and Other Fiction - Meyers, Steven Key
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Four brilliantly entertaining vignettes about America's past half-century. In My Hollywood Memoir, the grandson of a silent-screen star goes to Los Angeles to become a movie star himself. It's 1972, and Kid Crusoe Wyatt parlays his contacts into a gay love affair and a starring role in his grandfather's biopic-but will his fate be any different than Granddad's? Sidestep, set in 1980s Ohio, explores how American elites manage to stay on top come what may, even as crack cocaine threatens Jonah Greene's outsized success. Big Luck's Ricardo is a 2000s Mexican immigrant whose sex-worker past…mehr

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Four brilliantly entertaining vignettes about America's past half-century. In My Hollywood Memoir, the grandson of a silent-screen star goes to Los Angeles to become a movie star himself. It's 1972, and Kid Crusoe Wyatt parlays his contacts into a gay love affair and a starring role in his grandfather's biopic-but will his fate be any different than Granddad's? Sidestep, set in 1980s Ohio, explores how American elites manage to stay on top come what may, even as crack cocaine threatens Jonah Greene's outsized success. Big Luck's Ricardo is a 2000s Mexican immigrant whose sex-worker past stymies his citizenship application, until-after helping to game the California lottery-he realizes what he must do. The mood darkens with the mid-2010s in Save the Max Man! as a family deals with a child's health crisis by waging war on its medical insurance provider. "Meyers is a masterly communicator."-Kirkus Reviews
Autorenporträt
Steven Key Meyers was born on a farm near Grand Junction, Colorado. While living in New York City, he began writing plays, and later switched to writing fiction. His novels include Good People, All That Money, Queer's Progress, The Wedding on Big Bone Hill, My Mad Russian: Three Tales and Another's Fool. He has also published a biographical study of the once-famous Indiana painter Harvey joiner, as well as a memoir, I Remember Caramoor, recounting his time as teenaged underbutler at that famous Westchester County estate. In 2018 he published a short novel, The Last Posse, making use of several strands of his Texas forebears' history, including the historic posse his great-uncle led in pursuit of outlaw Frank Hollowell, and currently he is at work on a kind of sequel called The Ringers.