| Fork in the Road Contributor(s): Hamill, Denis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671016741 ISBN-13: 9780671016746 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: In an electrifying departure embraced by critics and readers alike, Hamill, the bestselling author of such cop thrillers as "3 Quarters" and "Throwing 7's", delivers an unforgettable tale of lust, greed, and brutal deception played out against the backdrop of modern-day Dublin and New York. Soon to be a major motion picture from Barry Levinson, director of "Rain Main" and "Diner". |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Media Tie-in |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 5.58" W x 8.5" (1.40 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Irish - Geographic Orientation - New York |
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| Publisher Description: Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture From Academy Award(R)-winning Director Barry Levinson With this stunning literary portrait of ill-fated love played out amid the romantic squalor and violent underpinnings of contemporary Dublin and New York, Denis Hamill has crafted a work of greater resonance than anything he has yet written. When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking aesthetic inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed in a hotel pub, all it takes is one look into her dazzling eyes for him to fall hard. Purely for the sake of research -- or so he tells himself -- he hurtles headlong into the bewitching world of Gina Furey, a stunningly beautiful, iron-willed denizen of Dublin's gypsy criminal underground. Before he knows what's happening, he finds himself a star player in a Pygmalion-like relationship rich with dramatic film possibilities: the earnest Yankee auteur woos and wins the dangerous gypsy thief. But the tenuous lines separating art and reality soon dissolve and the neatly linear screenplay unfolding inside Colin's head is eclipsed by the brutal chaos and unpredictability of true life. By turns devastating and hopeful, bittersweet and hilarious, Fork in The Road is both a tragic love story and the riveting drama of one man's heartbreaking journey from exhilaration to desolation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hamill, Denis: - Denis Hamill is the author of ten novels, including two previous novels featuring Bobby Emmet--3 Quarters and Throwing 7's, as well as Fork in the Road, Long Time Gone, Sins of Two Fathers, and his Brooklyn Christmas fable, Empty Stockings. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News, and he has been a columnist for New York magazine, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Boston Herald American. |