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Shooting Genji is a noir romance that gives readers an elegant, heart-pounding ride from Wall Street and the Crash of 1929 to Hollywood and the early talking picture shows. As a young man, the story’s narrator falls from a ladder, leaving him practically blinded by bright lights. Nature makes it up to him, though, compensating him with ridiculously good night vision. Countless shady careers beckon, including driving for whiskey smugglers, Wall Street cons, and Hollywood scoundrels. All-too-late, he realizes he’s still the guy in the dark. His one shining glimmer of hope is an alluring Lady from Shanghai, who could be his salvation or his undoing.
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Richard Voorhees has written two novels, a play, many haiku, and several screenplays, as well as The World’s Oldest Professions (An Unabridged Dictionary of Work). During his decade as a financial journalist, he published countless articles on entrepreneurs, venture capital, economic history, and the global financial markets. He has an English degree from Dartmouth College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. He studied film theory and literary criticism at the University of Paris. His documentary, Proust + Vermeer, premiered at the De Young Museum in 2013. On Twitter, he tweets haiku @RichVoorhees.
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- EditorialFound Art Publishing, Inc.
- Año de publicación2014
- ISBN 10 0991617452
- ISBN 13 9780991617456
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de edición1
- Número de páginas324
- IlustradorVoorhees Stephen Spillers, Voorhees Sebastian
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Voorhees, Stephen Spillers; Voorhees, Sebastian Ilustrador. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Shooting Genji is a noir riff on the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji, set in the U.S. during Prohibition and the Great Crash. The story's narrator, Jean-Yves LeFouet, is a book-lover who is almost blinded at age 16, when he falls from a ladder dusting books. He is changed and his eyes never recover. With daylight too bright and nighttime never too dark, he becomes perfectly suited for a multitude of shady careers. No one sees back roads at midnight as well, and a few years later he takes up driving at night for whiskey smugglers. The leader of the gang, Big Department, is reputed to be a gargantuan British thug. When Big Department decides to go legit and make money the easy way (i.e., on Wall Street), his henchman, a laconic assassin named Poochie, recommends Jean-Yves to the broker helping him invest his profits. Jean-Yves begins driving evenings for Aldo Pennebeck, a bon vivant who specializes in front running his own clients' orders. In 1928, the Wall Street broker life seems awfully sweet. Money is flowing, and thanks to Aldo's taste for entertaining, Jean-Yves meets a beautiful Swedish dancer named Eva-Marie Fachsi. Love seems grand as they tentatively nibble at the Big Apple. But Fachsi decides to leave New York anyway, aspiring to bigger things in Hollywood. Then October 1929 arrives and the stock market does a swan dive off a cliff. The gang isn't happy. They drop in, grab Aldo, and throw him out his 18th-story office window. The papers call it suicide. Luckily for Jean-Yves, the thugs don't get their hands on him and he flees with his cat in Aldo's Duesenberg. This will not be the last we see of these gangsters. More a romantic than a crook, Jean-Yves motors West in hopes of finding Fachsi. When he arrives in L.A., he sees 'Eva-Marie Fachsi' listed in the phone book, but his call doesn't go through. The number is disconnected. He stays in L.A. anyway and finds work chauffeuring at night for a producer named Charles Granyer. Granyer is filming an epic, erotic version of the 11th-century Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji. Jean-Yves drives Granyer and his friends around L.A. after dark, from one speakeasy to another. By the end of these evenings, his services are invaluable. His night vision also recommends him to work as Granyer's caddy, finding his boss's errant golf shots when night is falling and the bets are on. Recognizing talent when he sees it, Granyer even has him help with some dead-of-night saké smuggling. One day, Granyer directs him to pick up copies of The Tale of Genji at a bookshop in L.A.'s Little Tokio and deliver them to a dozen investors and aspiring actors. Something magical happens. He meets a literate, cultured young woman named Ariane. She and her grandmother own The Dragon and The Lotus, the dark, peaceful bookshop where Granyer gets his source material. Jean-Yves is smitten. Every time he visits, he leaves loaded with books and intoxicated by the charming bookseller. He starts reading The Tale of Genji in the subdued, quiet hours before dawn. Later Ariane sells him a rare book of Japanese woodblock prints that he imagines using in the film of Genji. He and Ariane begin playfully exchanging haiku. An elderly film pro from Shanghai named Joe runs Granyer's film lab. Jean-Yves begins working part-time in his darkroom, processing the dailies from the Genji shoot. Big Department pays a surprise visit to Granyer. Hard on this disaster, Granyer's lawyer calls to enlist Jean-Yves' help in another matter. Granyer's in custody, arrested the night before, after a young woman died at one of his parties. Jean-Yves tries to raise bail. He organizes a screening of Genji for potential buyers. After the premiere, some tough customer informs Jean-Yves that filming erotica in L.A. is off-limits. The stranger says he controls that market. He'll buy the rights to Genji on the cheap but warns him to cease and desist. The tale couldn't get more noir. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780991617456
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