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02175aam a22003378i 4500 001 7A114A04173711EFA068004147ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240521010044 008 231113s2024 cau 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023052623 020 $a 1640096248 020 $a 9781640096240 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3614.A863 $b F88 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231120 100 1 $a Nathan, Patrick, $e author. $9 206558 245 14 $a THE FUTURE WAS COLOR : $b A NOVEL / $c Patrick Nathan. 250 $a First Counterpoint edition. 263 $a 2412 264 1 $a San Francisco, California : $b Counterpoint, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/06/04 520 $a "As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open. Soon Madeline is carrying George like an ornament into a class of postwar L.A. society ordinarily hidden from men like him. What this lifestyle hides behind, aside from the monsters on the screen, are the monsters dwelling closer to home: this bacchanalia covers a gnawing hole shelled wide by the horror of the war they thought they'd left behind and the glimpse of an atomic future. It's here that George understands he can never escape his past as Gyorgy, the queer Jew who fled Budapest before the war and landed in New York, all alone, a decade prior"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Screenwriters $v Fiction. $9 93789 650 0 $a Jews $z United States $v Fiction. $9 85543 651 0 $a Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) $v Fiction. $9 85457 655 7 $a Queer fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $9 200624 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240521010622.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A114A04173711EFA068004147ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search