Half Past the Dead of Night

Fiction & Literature, Saga, Romance, Contemporary
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Author: Cleo Baldon ISBN: 9781491710449
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: March 28, 2014
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Cleo Baldon
ISBN: 9781491710449
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: March 28, 2014
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Thirty-seven-year-old script supervisor Jared Dunkin, called J., is camping in the corner of his inherited house above Hollywoods Sunset Strip. In his move, he brought only his autograph collection and his Barcelona chairs. Orphaned and disconsolate, J. is doing nothing with his love of film and very little with his history degree.

Out of the blue, he meets thirty-year-old Mary Ellen Higgencalled Emmywhile at a voting precinct on a February Tuesday and decides she might be the girl for him. But when he raves to his grandmother about Emmy, she warns him not to see the girl againalthough she doesnt say why.

Everyone in Hollywood has a personal celebrity. For J., its his grandmother, who came to Hollywood in the late forties as Miss South Dakota and third runner-up to Miss America. She made movies and married the head of make-up as he started the successful line of Ingnue Cosmetics. Emmys celebrity is her late, swashbuckling, movie star grandfather who had made a film with J.s Grandstar. Although theyre in love, J. and Emmy may have too much in common. Just as he finds a career, J. finds his personal life spiraling out of control in a spectacular fashion worthy of a soap opera.

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Thirty-seven-year-old script supervisor Jared Dunkin, called J., is camping in the corner of his inherited house above Hollywoods Sunset Strip. In his move, he brought only his autograph collection and his Barcelona chairs. Orphaned and disconsolate, J. is doing nothing with his love of film and very little with his history degree.

Out of the blue, he meets thirty-year-old Mary Ellen Higgencalled Emmywhile at a voting precinct on a February Tuesday and decides she might be the girl for him. But when he raves to his grandmother about Emmy, she warns him not to see the girl againalthough she doesnt say why.

Everyone in Hollywood has a personal celebrity. For J., its his grandmother, who came to Hollywood in the late forties as Miss South Dakota and third runner-up to Miss America. She made movies and married the head of make-up as he started the successful line of Ingnue Cosmetics. Emmys celebrity is her late, swashbuckling, movie star grandfather who had made a film with J.s Grandstar. Although theyre in love, J. and Emmy may have too much in common. Just as he finds a career, J. finds his personal life spiraling out of control in a spectacular fashion worthy of a soap opera.

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