City of Nets

[Carvill John]

Here's a good page on City of Nets. Scroll down a bit for some John Garfield content, including a nice pic.

http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2009/07/10-books-from-cinephiles-past-city-of.html


"But it is ultimately a sad book, an elegy for a system wrecked from within and without. Whenever the Siren picks up City of Nets, she is always drawn to the heartbreaking account of the final days of John Garfield, as the great actor, in exile in New York, types up a "confession" for Look magazine and spends hours on the phone, "trying to find somebody to talk to."





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> Pretty sure I recommended this before. A fantastic, anecdote-filled overview of Hollywood in the 1940s, one of the best books about movies I've ever read, the sort of book you buy copies of for friends, and full of Pynchon resonances (now, more than ever), Otto Friedrich's 'City of Nets':
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> http://www.amazon.com/City-Nets-Portrait-Hollywood-1940s/dp/0520209494
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> Here's a (fairly equivocal) review in the NYT which at least gives an idea of content:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/03/books/books-of-the-times-778986.html?&pagewanted=all
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> CheersJC


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