{"product_id":"nicolas-giacobone-the-crossed-out-notebook-2019-hardback","title":"Nicolas Giacobone: The Crossed Out Notebook [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This stylish debut novel by an Oscar-winning Argentine screenwriter (he co-wrote \u003ci\u003eBirdman\u003c\/i\u003e) is a suspenseful, darkly funny exploration of the creative process and the porous boundary between reality and fiction. Highly recommended' \u003ci\u003eThe Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, 'The Best New Fiction'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Academy Award-winning co-writer of \u003ci\u003eBirdman\u003c\/i\u003e, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eMisery\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKiss of the Spiderwoman\u003c\/i\u003e about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. \u003ci\u003eThe Crossed-Out Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossed-Out Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giacobone, Nicolas \u0026 Mcdowell, Megan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53535084708179,"sku":"9781472154521","price":21.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53535084740947,"sku":"XV81472154521","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/giacobone-nicolas-mcdowell-megan-nicolas-giacobone-the-crossed-out-notebook-2019-hardback-1233411868.jpg?v=1776798218","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/nicolas-giacobone-the-crossed-out-notebook-2019-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}