Eight masterful stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, and hope and rejection from the acclaimed actor and “supremely gifted writer” (The Sunday Times, London) Rupert Everett.
In his first, glorious collection of stories, Rupert Everett takes us on exhilarating journeys with a cast of extraordinary characters. From Oscar Wilde’s last night in Paris to the ferociously unforgiving world of a Los Angeles talent agency and beyond, these stories are evocative, moving, and tender. Brilliantly witty, elegiac, and drawing from the wealth of film and TV ideas Everett has worked on over the course of his illustrious career, The American No will delight and surprise his many fans.
“Having surfed the ebbs and flows of showbiz for nearly five decades, Everett embraces how, for both actors and writers, rejection is part of the job.... With ingenuity, he’s turned his own rejections into inspiration with his most recent book of short stories, The American No, breathing new life into a handful of rejected star-vehicle pitches that lived on in his head.” —Vanity Fair
“This is a storyteller unafraid to spike his black comedy with sudden and strongly brewed emotion... Individually, the stories are exhilarating; together, they add up to an intriguing self-portrait of an artist at work, presenting us with the multiple facets of an undaunted imagination, recut, repolished and ready to shine in the dark.” —The Guardian
“In this collection of stories, Everett…tackles topics ranging from Oscar Wilde’s final night in Paris to the no-holds-barred world of Hollywood talent agencies, and in doing so creates engrossing and delightful worlds in which readers can get lost.” —Town & Country
“[E]legiac. . . a remarkably coherent aesthetic vision.” —The Irish Times
