Out of Competition by Lew Collins
Demonstrators protest for democracy at the Renne-Sur-Mer annual film festival,
kidnapping a Hollywood producer while a Russian impresario's shark falls from a
helicopter out in the bay, and the festival's deputy usurps his boss's position.
Chaos headlines a year to forget or the one to remember. People who should win don't. Those who shouldn't do. Nobody knows anything, everyone off the air, out to lunch, or simply…Out of Competition
From the author of Uncorrected Proof – a new novel on film under siege in the south of France –winner of the 2023 Kenneth Patchen Award