{"product_id":"pat-hobby-stories-the","title":"Pat Hobby Stories, The","description":"A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes – such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive – to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories – which draw from Fitzgerald’s own travails as a screenwriter – were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57133499547983,"sku":"9781847493859","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781847493859_1-pat-hobby-stories-the.jpg?v=1772252697","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/pat-hobby-stories-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}