The Manhattan Beach Project
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: August 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781416572763
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; General; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: Three years, nine months and twenty-four days after winning an Academy Award for producing the best picture of the year, Charlie Berns was sitting on a folding chair in a second-floor room at the Brentwood Unitarian Church Annex listening to a woman with smeared lipstick and a bad postnasal drip tell him, and the other thirteen people in the room, that she had just charged $1,496 worth of cashmere sweaters on a VISA card she had received in the mail and failed to destroy.