The Child Buyer

by John Hersey, Lee Minoff, novel, screenwriter

$375 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

New York: LaMarca Productions, circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1960 novel by John Hersey. A satire about the American educational system, in which a man tries to buy a smart young child with a difficult home life in order to utilize him in an experiment to engineer super-intelligent humans. Adaptation written by Lee Minoff, writer of the screenplay for the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Tan untitled agency

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