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1 Pacific Tremors Stern, Richard Northwestern University Press Evanston, Ilinois, USA 2002 Hard Cover Very Good, Very Good First Edition 0810151316 / 9780810151314 Ex-Library BD1 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about two Hollywood veterans who have grown old and been cast aside by younger producers, directors, writers, reviewers, actors, and their own familite. The two friends confront their obsolescence and the harsh reality of their art and its link to money and celebrity. Circumstances allow these two brillliant veterans to slide toward oblivion but at the same time be instrumental in providing for the emergence of two equally brilliant young women in their field from the rising world of the Pacific Rim. The author is a winner of a Medal of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. By the author of "Golk," "Europe, or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish," "Other Men's Daughters," "Packages," "Noble Rot," and "A Sistermony." 189p. SCW07744  Price: 7.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart