{"product_id":"mr-wilder-and-me-0000241454662","title":"Mr Wilder and Me","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMr Wilder and Me\u003c\/strong\u003e by Coe, Jonathan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 0000241454662.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England**\n\nAs good as anything hes written - a novel to cherish Observer\n_______________________________________________________\n\nIn the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good.\n\nWhile Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.\n\nIn a novel that is at once a tender coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinemas most intriguing figures, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame, of family and the treacherous lure of nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide its time to let go?\n_______________________________________________________\n\nA beautiful, bittersweet novel that is itself crying out for the silver screen treatment Scotsman\n\nEffortlessly pleasurable and deceptively simple The Times\n\nUtterly charming, deeply poignant and ultimately uplifting Mail on Sunday\n\nA charming, bittersweet book, and a perfect reminder of arts value in stark times Spectator\n\nA book more loving towards its readers or its subject is hard to imagine John Self, The Critic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Viking Drill \u0026 Tool","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254282215477,"sku":"ByrdShop_0241454662","price":36.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780241454664_61140760-a638-4307-bb56-804956c9275c.jpg?v=1779957089","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mr-wilder-and-me-0000241454662","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}