The Return of the Player - Softcover

Unusual book

"Truly outrageous and actually endearing." -- Sherryl Connelly

"Tolkin's understated style and over-the-top characters continue to amaze."

"Mr. Tolkin remains Impressive as a scorched-earth social satirist." -- Janet Maslin

"Mill's antiheroic effort to wring love and meaning from a loveless and meaningless life is heartfelt and cynical."

"The finest novel of Hollywood since The Last Tycoon. I loved It, and when I wasn't laughing aloud, I was rereading it, gasping at the athletics and soul of the thing." -- Jon Robin Baitz

"Tolkin himself is a dying breed: among the last of those in Hollywood who move comfortably from big picture to small project, from screenwriting to directing to novel-writing." -- Matthew Debord

"Lively and freshly biting . . . The Return of the Player is classic satire . . . and with its gimiet eye on today's spiritual weariness and cash frenzy, is very much a novel of this time and moment." -- David Walton

"Poor Griffin Mill--once a mover--is down to his last six million dollars, and that isn't the worst of it in Tolkin's sharply observed sequel to The Player. Tolkin's till got a firm hold on Tinseltown's fluttery pulse."

"By far the widest-ranging novel of Tolkin's four-book career . . . The Return of the Player opens up the lives of the people surrounding ŬGriffin¨, which creates Tolkin's most fully realized world yet." -- Todd Peterson

"This crisp amorality tale boasts enviable verbal energy, thanks to a hectoring omniscient voice that blends the accents of an Old Testament prophet with those of a favor-currying film industry press agent. . . . This is vivid, nasty fun."