Evening in Byzantium: A Novel

From the O. Henry Award–winning author of Rich Man, Poor Man, an aging filmmaker struggles to resurrect his declining career while carousing at Cannes.

Jesse Crain was made for Cannes. A middle-aged filmmaker who dazzled audiences during Hollywood's Golden Age, Crain is talented, worldly, ambitious, and he knows how to play the game. As the Riviera sparkles in the spring of 1970, Crain juggles industry players while charming a persistent young journalist and fending off groupies. Beneath his...