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By: Victoria Shaun
Wisecracking working-class-heroine Binnie Bernhardt aims to bring to light the story of a never-finished 1904 Hollywood movie in a present-day documentary about it — unknowingly creating deadly consequences for everyone involved . . .
In this multi-era historical novel, New York ad copywriter Binnie Bernhardt, stalled in her career and unlucky in love, gets a life-changing gig at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. The assignment is to develop a documentary called City of the Sun, which is about a 1904 movie that was never finished, Emperor's Glory.
Binnie is enthralled by her film’s 1904 Hollywood, New York and Berlin backdrops, not to mention its cast of characters, who are trying to: 1) make the first American feature picture and 2) perfect poison gas for the upcoming first world war. Except, not everyone knows about (2).
When a producer is murdered and the Paramount project falls apart, Binnie impulsively sets off to one of her film's locations -- Berlin. And once she gets there, she discovers that the story of her film and the story of her life have some surprising--not to mention deadly--connections.
City of the Sun is about the picture business before the beginning, when Hollywood was just empty sunlight and no one knew how to fill a screen. It’s about how pictures get made. And unmade. The sick appeal of murder. And the unquenchable lust for a great story.
Wisecracking working-class-heroine Binnie Bernhardt aims to bring to light the story of a never-finished 1904 Hollywood movie in a present-day documentary about it — unknowingly creating deadly consequences for everyone involved . . .
In this multi-era historical novel, New York ad copywriter Binnie Bernhardt, stalled in her career and unlucky in love, gets a life-changing gig at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. The assignment is to develop a documentary called City of the Sun, which is about a 1904 movie that was never finished, Emperor's Glory.
Binnie is enthralled by her film’s 1904 Hollywood, New York and Berlin backdrops, not to mention its cast of characters, who are trying to: 1) make the first American feature picture and 2) perfect poison gas for the upcoming first world war. Except, not everyone knows about (2).
When a producer is murdered and the Paramount project falls apart, Binnie impulsively sets off to one of her film's locations -- Berlin. And once she gets there, she discovers that the story of her film and the story of her life have some surprising--not to mention deadly--connections.
City of the Sun is about the picture business before the beginning, when Hollywood was just empty sunlight and no one knew how to fill a screen. It’s about how pictures get made. And unmade. The sick appeal of murder. And the unquenchable lust for a great story.
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