![]() She has an ex-husband, (Jake), a terrific assistant, (Belle), good friends, and neighbours who think she’s too noisy. It’s the story of Sally Ross, a movie star who is about to do a stage-show on Broadway. ![]() I too loved this book as a young person, I thought it was very clever, very funny, and rather devastating.Īnd it stood up well on another reading. Although there are large areas where our tastes do not overlap at all, every so often there is a book that only John and I seem to have read – and this may be one of them. It was turned into a movie (a quasi-musical, no less) starring Lauren Bacall and James Garner. So I think that made it rather expensive and time consuming to layout and print. ![]() All before the age of personal computers and digital publishing, of course. THE FAN is rather unusual for a 1970s book as it’s entirely composed of letters, memos, and notes and was cleverly designed using different letterheads and typefaces for each letter. I may see it in another light now that forty years have passed. ![]() I read it when it first came out when I was a teenager. John over at Pretty Sinister Books reminded me about this one, saying: ![]() Commentary: This is my 1977 book for Rich Westwood’s Crime of the Century meme at Past Offences. ![]()
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