Download or read book The Temple of Gold written by William Goldman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author’s phenomenal debut novel about growing up in midwestern, midcentury America. Raymond Euripides Trevitt grows up virtually alone in the small town of Athens, Illinois, until a new boy moves in next door. His name is Zachary Crowe, but he goes by Zock. They’re as different as two midwestern boys can be, but their friendship will go on to shape—if not define—both of their lives. In the early days, Ray takes Zock hiking and Zock teaches Ray about poetry. They run away to Chicago, hide out in movie theaters, and watch Gunga Din over and over. By high school, it’s clear that Ray is no student while Zock is destined for Harvard. Still, they grow up side-by-side, through adolescence, double-dating, and first love. But during a summer visit home, a tragic accident leaves Ray racked with guilt. Alone once again, Ray discovers that in the depths of despair, resilience and hope are waiting to be found. The Temple of Gold launched the career of bestselling novelist and Academy Award–winning screenwriter William Goldman, best known for Marathon Man and The Princess Bride. This ebook features a biography of William Goldman.
Download or read book Marathon Man written by William Goldman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nazi conspiracy in the heart of modern-day Manhattan—the blockbuster New York Times bestseller that became the classic film thriller. At Columbia University, Thomas “Babe” Levy, a postgrad history student and aspiring marathon runner, is working to clear his late father’s name after the scandal of his suicide, triggered by the McCarthy hearings and accusations of Communist affiliations. In Paraguay, Dr. Christian Szell, former Nazi dentist and protégé of Josef Mengele, has been in exile for decades. Infamous as the “White Angel of Auschwitz,” he’s leaving his South American sanctuary to smuggle a fortune in gems out of New York City. Meanwhile, in London’s Kensington Gardens, an international assassin known only as Scylla has completed a hit. A man with too many secrets and twice as many enemies, Scylla has become a target himself, with only one place left to turn. Then, when Babe’s revered older brother, Doc, pays him a fateful and unexpected visit, it sets in motion a chain of events plunging Babe into a paranoid nightmare of family betrayal, international conspiracy, and the dark crimes of history. Now, the marathon man is running for his life, and closer to answering a single cryptic and terrifying question: “Is it safe?” William Goldman’s Marathon Man was adapted by the author for the award-winning 1976 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Upon its publication, the Washington Post called it “one of the best novels of the year,” and it remains a powerful, horrifying read. In the words of #1 New York Times–bestselling author Harlan Coben: “I found myself racing through it. You could have put a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t have been able to put [Marathon Man] down.” This ebook features a biography of William Goldman.
Download or read book Boys and Girls Together written by William Goldman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “extraordinary” novel of five friends coming of age in 1960s New York City, from a New York Times–bestselling, Academy Award–winning author (The Plain Dealer). William Goldman, the versatile author who gave us classic thrillers like Marathon Man, the immortal comedy of The Princess Bride, and the infamous Hollywood tell-all Adventures in the Screen Trade, offers a beautiful and sweeping novel inspired by his own coming-of-age, set against the backdrop of the New York theater world. In Boys and Girls Together, five friends—each of them young, creative, ambitious, and troubled—make their way to Manhattan in pursuit of their dreams. Aaron, the playwright; Walt, the director; Rudy and Jenny, both actors; and Branch, their producer, all come together to struggle, fight, love, create art, and face the hard truths of life. A popular sensation when it was first published in 1964, Boys and Girls Together remains a masterwork of heartbreaking emotional honesty. This ebook features a biography of William Goldman.
Download or read book Wait Till Next Year written by William Goldman and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big names and big games are all in this story of the 1987 New York Baseball Season. Two pros pool their talents for an inside ticket to a season's worth of legends and louses. "Read the book Steinbrenner and a host of other sports notables will want to burn. It's a beauty".--Elmore Leonard.
Download or read book Magic written by William Goldman and published by Dell. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of those can’t-put-it-down-until-the-last-page-is-turned monsters that has readers all over the country missing sleep.”—Minneapolis Tribune Corky is a brilliant entertainer with a bright future ahead of him. He has good looks, many women, and enormous talent. He also had a secret and a certainty: a secret that must be hidden from his public at all costs; and a certainty that the dark forces of magic were out to destroy him. “Fascinating . . . This dazzling psychological thriller cannot be put down! . . . The most imaginative and enjoyable novel I've read since Marathon Man. . . . [A] bizarre journey into the world of illusion.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Kept me up half the night. . . . A brilliantly alarming novel!”—Cosmopolitan
Download or read book Secrets of the Temple written by William Greider and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1989-01-15 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy.
Download or read book The Season written by William Goldman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each production of one season is used as the basis for an examination of one aspect of the Broadway theater
Download or read book Adventures in the Screen Trade written by William Goldman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter Hollywood's inner sanctums in this gosippy and honest book, named one the top 100 film books of all time by The Hollywood Reporter, by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Primcess Bride. No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films . . . .into the plush offices of Hollywood producers . . ..into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.."
Download or read book Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole written by James Goldman and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1962 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: For a battle hardened combat soldier the peacetime Army can hold terrors that make him wish he were back in action again. Take the case of First Lieutenant Stanley Poole, a career Sergeant who earned a battlefield commission, and is now
Download or read book As You Wish written by Cary Elwes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 25th anniversary, behind-the-scenes account of the making of the cult-classic film, the lead actor shares never-before-told stories and exclusive photographs as well as interviews with Robin Wright, Billy Crystal and more. 100,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Temple of Gold written by William Goldman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed for such Academy Award—winning screenplays as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and such thrillers as Marathon Man, not to mention the bestselling classic The Princess Bride, William Goldman stands as one of the most beloved writers in America. But long before these triumphs, he caused a sensation with his brilliant first novel, a powerful story of reckless youth that was hailed as a worthy rival to The Catcher in the Rye. THE TEMPLE OF GOLD Ray Trevitt is coming of age in the American midwest of the late 1950s. Handsome, restless, eager to live life and to find his place in the world, Ray hurtles headlong through a young man’s rite of passage–searching for answers and somewhere to belong. What he discovers is that within friendships and love affairs, army tours and married life, victory and tragedy, lie the experiences that will shape his destiny, scar his soul, and ultimately teach him profound lessons he never expected.
Download or read book William Goldman s Story of A Bridge Too Far written by William Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living My Life written by Emma Goldman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities
Download or read book Brothers written by William Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited sequel to Marathon Man, bestselling author William Goldman creates his most deadly protagonist yet--a killing machine of such power and single-minded purpose that no one can escape him. Filled with incredible surprises, amazing twists and unlimited suspense.
Download or read book The Ghost and the Darkness written by William Goldman and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of high adventure on the African plains follows Lt. Col. Patterson as he stalks the man eating lions of Tsavo in 1898.
Download or read book The Princess Bride written by William Goldman and published by Everbind. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.
Download or read book William Goldman written by William Goldman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride, Misery . Author royalties donated to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
