Overview

Eight glorious stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, and hope and rejection from the acclaimed actor and ""supremely gifted writer"" (The Sunday Times, London) Rupert Everett. In his first, ""engrossing and delightful"" (Town & Country) collection of stories--drawn from the wealth of film and TV ideas Rupert Everett has worked on over the course of his illustrious career--Everett takes us on exhilarating journeys with a cast of extraordinary characters. From Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris to the ferociously unforgiving world of a Los Angeles talent agency and beyond, these ""dynamic and glib, knowing and innocent, atmospheric and frothy"" (Booklist) stories will delight and surprise his many fans.

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International Praise for Rupert Everett's Previous Books ""Hilariously honest...a kind of rake's progress....as good as Evelyn Waugh."" --Daily Mail (UK) ""A supremely gifted writer."" --Lynn Barber, The Times (London) ""Irresistible."" --Sunday Times Books of the Year (London) ""A literary star."" --Daily Telegraph (UK) ""An instant classic."" --Independent ""The joy of Everett as a writer has always been his pitilessly clear-eyed perspective, especially of himself...Everett has become one of the most delightful writers about modern fame...He has a writing style as seductive as his youthful beauty...every sentence Everett writes rings with his personality, and it's a personality that has always been irresistible."" --Hadley Freeman, Guardian Book of the Day (UK) ""It quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose...We should really start describing him as a writer who acts, rather than the other way round...He's brilliantly caustic on Hollywood and the march of time."" --The Times (London) ""We know, by now, that Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention...However wasteful and capricious his first profession, we know that he is perfectly safe. The blank page will henceforth always be his. He is a writer to his (aching) bones."" --Rachel Cooke, Observer (UK) ""His resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of life's sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow...the sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn't a dull moment."" --Telegraph (London) ""Every page...sparkles. He writes with ready wit, fetching self-deprecation and a turn of phrase that brings places and people vividly to life. He can capture a character in a sentence or convey the fading grandeur of a hotel and city in a few lines...You hope there are more adventures to come and that Everett continues to chronicle them with the wit and panache that he displays here."" --Daily Express (UK)

"International Praise for Rupert Everett's Previous Books ""Hilariously honest...a kind of rake's progress....as good as Evelyn Waugh."" --Daily Mail (UK) ""A supremely gifted writer."" --Lynn Barber, The Times (London) ""Irresistible."" --Sunday Times Books of the Year (London) ""A literary star."" --Daily Telegraph (UK) ""An instant classic."" --Independent ""The joy of Everett as a writer has always been his pitilessly clear-eyed perspective, especially of himself...Everett has become one of the most delightful writers about modern fame...He has a writing style as seductive as his youthful beauty...every sentence Everett writes rings with his personality, and it's a personality that has always been irresistible."" --Hadley Freeman, Guardian Book of the Day (UK) ""It quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose...We should really start describing him as a writer who acts, rather than the other way round...He's brilliantly caustic on Hollywood and the march of time."" --The Times (London) ""We know, by now, that Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention...However wasteful and capricious his first profession, we know that he is perfectly safe. The blank page will henceforth always be his. He is a writer to his (aching) bones."" --Rachel Cooke, Observer (UK) ""His resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of life's sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow...the sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn't a dull moment."" --Telegraph (London) ""Every page...sparkles. He writes with ready wit, fetching self-deprecation and a turn of phrase that brings places and people vividly to life. He can capture a character in a sentence or convey the fading grandeur of a hotel and city in a few lines...You hope there are more adventures to come and that Everett continues to chronicle them with the wit and panache that he displays here."" --Daily Express (UK)"

""[E]legiac. . . a remarkably coherent aesthetic vision."" --The Irish Times ""This is a storyteller unafraid to spike his black comedy with sudden and strongly brewed emotion... Individually, the stories are exhilarating; together, they add up to an intriguing self-portrait of an artist at work, presenting us with the multiple facets of an undaunted imagination, recut, repolished and ready to shine in the dark."" --The Guardian ""[Everett's] resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of life's sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow...the sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn't a dull moment."" --The Telegraph ""Everett has a flair for historical fiction...What were once ideas for screenplays have become stories - and are all the better for the years of marinating. There is some real depth and richness here, as well as a sharp critique of the mores of La-La Land."" --Erica Wagner, Tatler ""Full of kindness, even tenderness... [Everett's] feeling for failure is a writerly gift, throwing a navy shadow over even his funniest and most scabrous lines... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical."" --Rachel Cooke, The Observer ""Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller."" --The Sunday Times ""With these astute character-driven tales, the author proves to be a storyteller of many talents. Everett's fans have cause to celebrate."" --Publishers Weekly International Praise for Rupert Everett's Previous Books ""Hilariously honest...a kind of rake's progress....as good as Evelyn Waugh."" --Daily Mail (UK) ""A supremely gifted writer."" --Lynn Barber, The Times (London) ""Irresistible."" --Sunday Times Books of the Year (London) ""A literary star."" --Daily Telegraph (UK) ""An instant classic."" --Independent ""The joy of Everett as a writer has always been his pitilessly clear-eyed perspective, especially of himself...Everett has become one of the most delightful writers about modern fame...He has a writing style as seductive as his youthful beauty...every sentence Everett writes rings with his personality, and it's a personality that has always been irresistible."" --Hadley Freeman, Guardian Book of the Day (UK) ""It quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose...We should really start describing him as a writer who acts, rather than the other way round...He's brilliantly caustic on Hollywood and the march of time."" --The Times (London) ""We know, by now, that Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention...However wasteful and capricious his first profession, we know that he is perfectly safe. The blank page will henceforth always be his. He is a writer to his (aching) bones."" --Rachel Cooke, Observer (UK) ""His resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of life's sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow...the sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn't a dull moment."" --Telegraph (London) ""Every page...sparkles. He writes with ready wit, fetching self-deprecation and a turn of phrase that brings places and people vividly to life. He can capture a character in a sentence or convey the fading grandeur of a hotel and city in a few lines...You hope there are more adventures to come and that Everett continues to chronicle them with the wit and panache that he displays here."" --Daily Express (UK)

Author Information

Rupert Everett shot to fame with the film Another Country in 1984 and has been a hugely successful actor and writer for many years. His films include My Best Friend's Wedding, Shakespeare in Love, The Madness of King George, Napoleon, and much more. He is the author of two novels, three works of nonfiction, and a collection of short stories. He lives in London and New York.

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