Michael Tolkin

• May-1989
• / General Fiction
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The “shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel” that inspired the award-winning Robert Altman film (The New York Times Book Review).   Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of G...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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“An amazing novel” that plunges into the all-too-gray area between the public and private in contemporary American life (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Michael Tolkin’s acclaimed second novel, Among the Dead, is an arresting examination...

• Jun-2007
• / Literary
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This follow-up to the classic black comedy about the film industry is “a wicked fever dream of a novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).In The Player, the Hollywood novel that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film execu...

• Feb-2017
• / Science Fiction
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With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been acciden...

• / Literary
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A “provocative” psychological suspense novel about “a character who is bound inevitably to a disastrous past” (The Oregonian).   Years ago, Tom Levy worked an insurance scam that left him rich, but he is about to learn that wealth can’...