Television: A Novel

"A glamorous, intriguing novel" (New York Times) about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together.The two of you make a kind of movie and then it’s over.Other people, what you imagine isn’t a movie, because it keeps going.It’s television . . . If you can’t see how romantic television is, you’re blind. An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking up with a much younger model.His non-famous best friend (and often lover) looks on impassively, while recollecting their twenty-odd years of unlikely connection. And an aspiring filmmaker, unknown to them both, labors over a script about best friends and lovers while longing for the financial freedom to make great art. Told in their alternating, intricately linked perspectives, Television is a funny, philosophically astute novel about phenomenal luck