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On a fishing trip in the remote hills of Slovakia a small boy discovers a limousine lying at the bottom of a river. Inside are the bodies of two Hollywood film stars, a young movie director and a famous rock musician. Meanwhile, across the border in Poland, production on a new movie about Napoleon is tens of millions of dollar over-budget and the producer is missing.
‘Without doubt the best movie story I have ever read. A brilliant mixture of irony, comedy and pathos.’ Publishing News.
‘Shadows On A Wall…never falters. This bitter-sweet comedy about the making of a movie epic kept me engaged through every scene, laughing here, worrying there, fascinated always by the absurdity and the reality of it all. Epic and massively entertaining.’ National Public Radio.
‘Darkly funny.’ Seattle Times
What the critics said…
‘Probably the best novel about movie making ever written.’ Sunday Express.
‘Shadows On A Wall belongs on that select shelf of good literature about Hollywood alongside Robert Stone’s Children Of The Light and Michael Tolkin’s The Player.’ Washington Post.
‘Without doubt the best movie story I have ever read. A brilliant mixture of irony, comedy and pathos.’ Publishing News.
‘Shadows On A Wall…never falters. This bitter-sweet comedy about the making of a movie epic kept me engaged through every scene, laughing here, worrying there, fascinated always by the absurdity and the reality of it all. Epic and massively entertaining.’ National Public Radio.
‘Darkly funny.’ Seattle Times
‘Readers will certainly delight in the roller coaster ride of action packed and tragic events in this interesting novel.’ Booklist.
‘Bright and blackly funny…the War and Peace of Hollywood novels. Highly recommended.’ New York Library Journal.
‘A smart, funny, knowing novel…this book would make a great movie.’ PittsburghPost-Gazette.
‘Hilarious…a wonderfully ironic black comedy.’ Buzz.
‘Excellent…so accurate and so cutting is the portrait Connolly paints that even citizens of Tinseltown should give it the thumbs up.’ Publishers Weekly.
‘Satire…with a couple of back comedy surprises that would have delighted Alfred Hitchcock.’ San Francisco Chronicle.
‘Imagine The Player crossed with Reds and then throw in Hugh Grant and Quentin Tarantino. It’s sure to wow ’em on the beaches.’ Entertainment Weekly.
‘Connolly is both true to life and inventive. He knows how movie people behave and talk, and he knows how to tell a big story.’ Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
