Double Feature

$50 · Offered by Gauntlet Press

Published 2014 Owen King has added loads of bonus material to this edition of his debut novel, DOUBLE FEATURE, making this a truly unique collectible. Filmmaker Sam Dolan has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam s eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can t stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a deranged ballplayer; the morose producer of a true crime show; and a slouching indie film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster. Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan Family s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is an epic novel about letting go of everything regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead and taking it again from the top. Combining propulsive storytelling and mordant wit against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, Double Feature brims with a deep understanding of the truths of ambition and art, of relationships and life and of our attempts to survive it all. This limited edition includes a tip sheet drawn by bestselling author Joe Hill ( Heart-Shaped Box , NOS4A2 ), an afterward by

• Binding: Hardcover

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