Mount Terminus (48 page)

This book is for my mother, Margaret Stutz, who has given all and asked for so little in return. And for her mother, Bessie Buschel, who, had she lived a few more months, would have turned one hundred upon
Mount Terminus
's publication. She shared with me her great love of movies and books, and much, much more, and for that I am profoundly in her debt. For a tough old broad, my bubbie had a soft touch.

 

ALSO BY DAVID GRAND

Louse

The Disappearing Body

 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

 

Copyright © 2014 by David Grand

All rights reserved

First edition, 2014

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grand, David, 1968–

    Mount Terminus: a novel / David Grand.

        pages  cm

    ISBN 978-0-374-28088-8 (hardback)

    1.  Motion picture industry—California—Los Angeles—Fiction.   2.  Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3557.R247 M68 2014

813'.54—dc23

2013033025

 

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