The Camera Always Lies

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Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attentioneven, reportedly, from Roses own husbandher life of privilege unspools. First published in 1967,The Camera Always Liesis an absorbing novel of Hollywood politics and one womans struggle to survive them.Highly sophisticated [Hood] keeps the reader continually fascinated.New York Times Book ReviewOne of the best stories of Hollywood to appear in years warm humanity, an acute insight into the pressures our society imposes on people in public life, and a sharp eye for the politics and personalities of the film world.Portland ExpressHoods thirty-year career demonstrates his profound and compassionate sensitivity to our human predicament.Canadian Book Review AnnualOne of Canadas most prolific short-story writers and novelists.The Globe & MailHoods style is simplicity itself, his approach quite refreshingly ingenuous.Montreal StarHighly readable and often compelling.Winnipeg Free Press