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Tim Blake Nelson's debut novel is an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood, or Urbs Plagarum (The City of Blows).

It's early 2019 and the legendary (and legendarily difficult) producer Jacob Rosenthal is hellbent on producing his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by celebrated (but long deceased) writer Rex Patterson. For reasons profoundly personal, the project--which takes on the controversial topic of race in America--is Jacob's envisioned magnum opus, and likely his swan song. For equally personal reasons, Jacob selects Jim Levit to direct; a major opportunity for the classically trained actor/director whose own films, while garnering some critical acclaim, have not yet resulted in box office success.

The announcement of Jim's hiring for Coal does not sit well with another producer who has worked with Jim, Aaron Gilman. With a career spiraling out of control, Aaron increasingly needs someone to blame, and Jim is the softest target he can think of. As he channels the last remaining vestiges of his creativity into a revenge plot that will ruin Jim's big break (and Jacob's crowning achievement), Aaron's tragicomic origin story is revealed. But it is his agent and boyhood friend, the handsome and successful David McCann, who triggers a greater unraveling--and a long over-due reckoning for abuse and coercion masquerading as traditional Hollywood masculinity.

A sharply crafted satire, Urbs Plagarum is both love letter and indictment of the film industry from an insider. You will find yourself laughing in spite of the ruthlessness and despair, the hubris and the sheer evil, as Urbs Plagarum accelerates to its crescendo.


About the Author: Tim Blake Nelson is an actor, filmmaker and playwright. He has appeared in over eighty feature films, working with directors that include the Coen brothers, Steven Spielberg, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Soderbergh, and Nora Ephron. He has directed five films, four of which he wrote, all of which were released theatrically in the United States and internationally, garnering myriad awards. He has written and published three plays, each produced off Broadway in New York, most recently Socrates, which enjoyed a sold-out run through three extensions at the Public Theater in the spring of 2019.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781951213657
  • Publisher: Unnamed Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Unnamed Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1951213653
  • Publisher Date: 29 Nov 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 752 gr

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