My face for the world to see
By: Alfred Hayes ; introduction by David Thomson
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781590176672
Copyright date: 1958
Subjects: Fiction
Description: My face for the world to see is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you're only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. She's a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. She's just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes -- Back cover.