{"product_id":"9781785784804-black-sunset","title":"Black Sunset","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos\u003cbr\u003eThe riveting, poignant, star-studded and hilarious memoir of award-winning author Clancy Sigal's time as a film agent on the make in Blacklist-era Hollywood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor me it begins in such an ordinary way . with a gorilla, a blonde,\u003cbr\u003eand a gun .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMid- 20th century Hollywood; 'Raymond\u003cbr\u003eChandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later be\u003cbr\u003ethe inspiration for Doris Lessing's 'Saul Green') is just back from\u003cbr\u003efighting in the Second World War and an abortive solo attempt to assassinate Hermann\u003cbr\u003eGoering at the Nurenburg trials. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharming his way into a job as an\u003cbr\u003eagent with the Sam Jaffe agency, Sigal plunges into a chaotic Hollywood peopled by fast\u003cbr\u003ewomen, washed-up screenwriters, wily directors, and starstruck FBI agents\u003cbr\u003etrailing 'subversives'. He parties with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Tony\u003cbr\u003eCurtis and an anxious Peter Lorre, who becomes a drinking buddy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this is the era of the Hollywood Blacklist\u003cbr\u003eand Sigal, like many of his contemporaries, is subpoenaed to testify before the\u003cbr\u003eHUAC. Will he give up the list of \u003cb\u003enine names\u003c\/b\u003e, burning a hole in his pocket, to\u003cbr\u003esave his own skin? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilarious, touching, intimate and revealing: Sigal's\u003cbr\u003ememoir reads like a forgotten hardboiled detective novel and has all the makings of an\u003cbr\u003einstant classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535845302646,"sku":"9781785784804","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40212458.jpg?v=1774283363","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781785784804-black-sunset","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}