Pool: A Novel

By Ajay Sahgal

Book Overview

'Mad scientist Ajay Sahgal has set out to test the validity of the proposition that nature abhors a vacuum by sending movie star Emery Roberts, to rustic Vermont...As a group portrait of young Hollywood, Pool is absolutely convincing and authentic. Sahgal knows the tribal language and rituals--the cigarette after the gym, the vanity production company, the agentspeak. And in Emery Roberts he has given us a pure portrait of the pop idol as empty vessel.'

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871135590
• ISBN13: 9780871135599
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A funny, fast movie!

I just re-read this book after reading it when it originally came out in 1994. I found it just as entertaining now as I did then. The characters are so interesting and the dialogue so good. Author Ajay Sahgal certainly has a gift for dialogue. There are a bunch of these young, Hollywood-types and they seek a little refuge in Vermont and try to build this pool. Until movie star Emory Roberts comes and spoils their refuge. It's a really funny and quick read. I got a lot of good insight into how these people think and what motivates them. As a matter of fact, it reads like a good screenplay. And word around L.A. is that it will be made into a movie soon! I loved it.