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SCREENWRITER
“I haven't seen writing this good, this clear and touching and funny, as well-seen as Lima's since...since I don't know when. Here's a highly experienced writer from a different medium, plays and screenplays, unaware that his novel is absolutely brilliant. The book is sometimes dark but Lima takes us past darkness, though, shoves us beyond in a way that gives hope even when we haven't been shattered by the system.
…what this man writes is crystal true. A reader who's never seen the Paramount gate will know it, too, scenes that blow us away laughing, the writer's eye so wondrous clear.”
---- Richard Bach – bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Screenwriter is innovative, sophisticated and probing!" Writer's Digest
"One has to admire the ambition of this debut novel about a screenwriter's struggles in Hollywood. The protagonist, Robert Medina aspires to write plays, which he considers more honorable profession than selling out to the movies. The novel's short chapters (some no longer than a paragraph) are not numbered but have titles like "writing in restaurants" and move the story forward with precision. The novel's protagonist admires famous writers before him like William Styron (Darkness Visible) as he undergoes his own "dark night of the soul." The author has a similar impulse; to make his fiction innovative and he succeeds with probing sophisticated paragraphs and sentences. At times the first person narrator refers to himself in the first person as "the writer" a nicely self-conscious effect that is partly narcissistic, and entirely ironic. Screenwriter by Rafael Lima is a debut novel."
----Writer's Digest
“I've raced through SCREENWRITER! I'm a slow reader, and I always have several books on the go, but I picked up SCREENWRITER and it just carried me through; truly wonderful. Truly. It just proved to me, if proof were needed, that screenwriters make the best storytellers. As I read the last lines, I felt like Bobby himself - serene and energized, as if I was about to write a novel myself.
One more thing... I have often read blurbs on the back of books that have described them as funny, or even hilarious, and when I've read them I've not felt that at all - but now I know what they mean. Or, at least, at long last I have felt something it's not that SCREENWRITER was funny (there were funny bits, don't get me wrong) but I smiled and laughed out of the sheer joy of recognition - of the universal, of new truths, surprising metaphors, elegant thoughts. It was, to sum up, a delight. Thank you. I have no doubt that it will find a publisher. Now... who to write the screenplay..?”
---Jonathan Hall BBC writer
PUBLISHER'S
Living large in Los Angeles a screenwriter chews his way up the Hollywood food chain. Punching out his latest film he begins an involuntary downward spiral into depression and delusion. As he tries to out-run his demons with Xanax and a lap-top, his relentless quest for purity leads him through the soul-less world of the major studios, finally bringing him to a reckoning point where he is forced to acknowledge loss and possibly recover his better instincts.
…what this man writes is crystal true. A reader who's never seen the Paramount gate will know it, too, scenes that blow us away laughing, the writer's eye so wondrous clear.”
---- Richard Bach – bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Screenwriter is innovative, sophisticated and probing!" Writer's Digest
"One has to admire the ambition of this debut novel about a screenwriter's struggles in Hollywood. The protagonist, Robert Medina aspires to write plays, which he considers more honorable profession than selling out to the movies. The novel's short chapters (some no longer than a paragraph) are not numbered but have titles like "writing in restaurants" and move the story forward with precision. The novel's protagonist admires famous writers before him like William Styron (Darkness Visible) as he undergoes his own "dark night of the soul." The author has a similar impulse; to make his fiction innovative and he succeeds with probing sophisticated paragraphs and sentences. At times the first person narrator refers to himself in the first person as "the writer" a nicely self-conscious effect that is partly narcissistic, and entirely ironic. Screenwriter by Rafael Lima is a debut novel."
----Writer's Digest
“I've raced through SCREENWRITER! I'm a slow reader, and I always have several books on the go, but I picked up SCREENWRITER and it just carried me through; truly wonderful. Truly. It just proved to me, if proof were needed, that screenwriters make the best storytellers. As I read the last lines, I felt like Bobby himself - serene and energized, as if I was about to write a novel myself.
One more thing... I have often read blurbs on the back of books that have described them as funny, or even hilarious, and when I've read them I've not felt that at all - but now I know what they mean. Or, at least, at long last I have felt something it's not that SCREENWRITER was funny (there were funny bits, don't get me wrong) but I smiled and laughed out of the sheer joy of recognition - of the universal, of new truths, surprising metaphors, elegant thoughts. It was, to sum up, a delight. Thank you. I have no doubt that it will find a publisher. Now... who to write the screenplay..?”
---Jonathan Hall BBC writer
PUBLISHER'S
Living large in Los Angeles a screenwriter chews his way up the Hollywood food chain. Punching out his latest film he begins an involuntary downward spiral into depression and delusion. As he tries to out-run his demons with Xanax and a lap-top, his relentless quest for purity leads him through the soul-less world of the major studios, finally bringing him to a reckoning point where he is forced to acknowledge loss and possibly recover his better instincts.
182 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 8, 2010
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