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Double Feature by Owen King (April 2013)
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Overview: An epic debut novel about a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film.

SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can’t stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster.

Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything — regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead — and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.
Genre: Fiction

"When film-studies graduate Sam Dolan sells all his collectibles and maxes out every credit card he has to make his first movie, he intends it be a uniquely honest and realistic story about the disenchantment of lost youth. But things don’t work out quite the way he expects, and he abandons his directing dreams to sink into a disillusioned depression. He remains detached, continuing to view the world as though it were a film, but eventually is forced to deal with the things he has been avoiding, like his estranged relationship with his philandering actor father and his eroding bond with his younger half-sister, by hiding behind the imaginary camera. Set in a world of B-movie actors and enthusiasts, King’s first novel, about facing reality and failed aspirations, is irreverent and ambitious. Its sweeping scope covers several generations in a humorous and cynical narrative that bounces between decades. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this captivating look at the ongoing process of becoming an adult will especially appeal to fans of the indie film industry." ~Booklist

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