ASIN: B008B8HBKA
Publisher: Callister Green Publishing
Pages: 300
Charlie Allen, a moderately successful, thirty-five year old, Hollywood screenwriter, concocts a daring scheme: plagiarize the best lines and writing from dead poets, recast them in modern diction, and cobble them together to produce the greatest screenplay ever. To live or not to live. That’s what I wonder. And nobody can sue him.As Charlie embarks on his literary adventure, he comically observes the movie business, the growing fragility of his marriage, and his lackadaisical attitude to his two, small children.Giving his magnum opus the unwieldy, working title, America - The Beautiful Poem, Charlie crafts an outlandish, melodramatic tale set in 1850 about King Peter of the United States sending his eldest son, Prince John, to Canada to wed the Queen of Canada’s daughter and weld an alliance between the two countries. But Rodrigo, Prince of Mexico sends assassins to kill John. ...
