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Goldman then returned to the novel and eventually finished it, despite being in great physical pain much of the time. [citation needed] Reception Commercial. When Goldman completed his novel, there was a great demand for it among publishers. Goldman says for his first novels he received an advance of $10,000, then $5,000, then $5,000.
Boys and girls, yes, and boys and boys, and husbands--moonlighting, all go out to play in this profligate novel which records the lives of five primary and a good many subsidiary characters. (It's a big book- i.e. it's long- 700-800 pages.) Besides going the distance at a pace few have achieved in just this way except Harold Robbins, it's just ...
About William Goldman. William Goldman was an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (1957), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961). He went on to… More about William Goldman
1 de may. de 1985 · William Goldman (b. 1931) is an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (1957), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961). He went on to write the screenplays for many acclaimed films, including Butch Cassidy and the ...
Heat is a 1985 novel by William Goldman about a soldier of fortune in Las Vegas. Contents. 1 Plot; 2 Background; 3 Reception; ... Goldman says he began the novel with "that main character and I had that opening sequence and I'd been in Vegas a lot and it's such a terrible place to be a compulsive gambler and try to earn a living there."
