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Candescent Blooms

Andrew Hook

Editorial: Salt

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Sinopsis

Candescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies of mostly Golden Era Hollywood actors who suffered untimely deaths. From Olive Thomas in 1920 through to Grace Kelly in 1982, these pieces utilise facts, fiction, gossip, movies and unreliable memories to examine the life of each individual character set against a Hollywood background of hope and corruption, opportunity and reality.
Disponible desde: 15/10/2022.
Longitud de impresión: 208 páginas.

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