The Crossed-Out Notebook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501198748)

From the Academy Award-winning cowriter of Birdman, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of Misery and Kiss of the Spiderwoman about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece.

Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. The Crossed-Out Notebook is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day.

The clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, The Crossed-Out Notebook is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.

Author: Nicolás Giacobone
ISBN-10: 1501198742
ISBN-13: 9781501198748
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 19
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 09/09/2019