Tragedy Alfred Hayes, adapted from his best seller Characters: 7 male, 4 female Complete interior set Here is a merciless picture of hardened American conquerors abroad and their impact on pitifully defenseless people. A young American soldier takes on a pretty, fearful Italian girl to while away the tedious occupation. She consents with deep bitterness and restraint; the only jobs and bread are in the American kitchens. The country's pride is fiercely moral and the
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Alfred Hayes was een Britse scenarioschrijver, romanschrijver en dichter die in Italië en de Verenigde Staten werkte. Zijn werk duikt vaak in de complexiteit van de menselijke conditie en verkent morele dilemma's met scherp inzicht. Hij is vooral bekend van zijn gedicht 'Joe Hill', dat beroemd werd op muziek gezet. Hayes toonde zijn veelzijdigheid door scenario's voor Italiaanse neorealistische films en Amerikaanse televisieseries, waarmee hij de essentie van verschillende tijdperken en settings wist te vangen. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een diep begrip van personages en hun innerlijke werelden.
In Love
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An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New York In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a lonely divorcee; of how one night she was offered one thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Love is an indictment of, and an elegy to, a love affair that was doom[Bokinfo].
My Face for the World to See
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At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes' exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind.
