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The Pat Hobby Stories

Scott F Fitzgerald author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:19th Nov '14

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A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts. A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories - which draw from Fitzgerald's own travails as a screenwriter - were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

ISBN: 9781847493859

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 198g

160 pages