Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe
A middle-aged Greek woman recalls the summer of 1977 when, as a naive student, she was drawn into the orbit of a legendary émigré filmmaker and his acerbic writing partner during the fraught European shoot of a late-career movie. Moving from Los Angeles to Munich and a sunlit Greek island, she witnesses creative struggle, the weight of exile and history, and the pangs of fading relevance, even as she finds her own direction. Framed by her present-day family life, the story becomes a bittersweet meditation on art, aging, and how chance encounters can set a life’s course.
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- Published
- 2020
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 240–288
- Original Language
- English
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