54
- Authors
- Wu Ming
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tags
- mystery , contemporary , thriller
- ISBN
- 9780151013807
- Date
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.35 MB
- Lang
- en
In Hollywood, Cary Grant has grown weary of cinema's constant glamour, but Her Majesty's Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and launches the global heroin trade. And in Bologna, a bartender searches for true love and his missing communist father.
Set during the height of the Cold War - with the world divided into East and West - 54 features Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly. Wu Ming brings us a cinematic romp that is by turns edgy social satire and modern comic send up.