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Reading TEMPTATION and THE MOMENT in Montreal

Jun.26.2012

Reading TEMPTATION and THE MOMENT in Montreal

Venez rencontrer Douglas Kennedy, auteur de dix romans, dont les best-sellers
internationaux Rien ne va plus et Cet instant-là. Son oeuvre a été traduite en 22
langues. En 2007, il a été nommé Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres par le
gouvernement français.
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Come and meet Douglas Kennedy,the author of ten novels, including the
international bestsellers Temptation and The Moment. His work has been translated into
22 languages. In 2007, he received the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres.
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PUBLISHED: Apr.24.2012

Temptation

From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes the brilliant, breathtaking story about a Hollywood screenwriter whose “overnight success” brings about his biggest downfall. Like all screenwriters in Tinsel Town, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. Finally, after eleven years of disappointment and failure, big-time luck comes his way when one of...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.15.2011

The Moment

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage, his solitude is disrupted one wintry morning by the arrival of a box that is postmarked Berlin. The name on the box—Dussmann—unsettles him completely, for it belongs to the...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.05.2011

The Woman in the Fifth

A runaway bestseller in the UK and France that has been made into a film starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas, this suspenseful tour de force from the internationally renowned Douglas Kennedy is the quintessential sophisticated commercial novel. Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.15.2011

State of the Union

America in the 1960s was an era of radical upheaval–of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren’t supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.04.2011

A Special Relationship

About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into domestic life in London. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and his hometown was an uneasy one—as she found both...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.09.2010

The Pursuit of Happiness

Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara, an independent, outspoken young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, a man whose world view was vastly...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.15.2010

Leaving the World

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns...

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Douglas's Latest Blogs

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May.03.2012 - 12:03 pm

CROSSING THE FINISH LINE

Finished. What an intriguing word – as it has so many multifaceted meanings. Consider: “He’s finished’ – which has an almost dismissive, gangster-like quality to it (“Louis...

Apr.30.2012 - 1:45 pm

Destiny's Calculus

Chance is a theme that runs through all my novels – because, of course, it also so runs through all of life. Happenstance is a word – along with quotidian – that seems to...

Apr.30.2012 - 1:44 pm

Flexible Morality

‪I was telling a woman friend in Paris some months back about a fellow American who’d been found out in a very brief affair by his wife, and who’d arrived home from a business...

Apr.30.2012 - 1:42 pm

The Business of Cutting

I finished the first draft of a screenplay a few days ago. And I have just finished cutting it down to an acceptable length… the rule being one page of script equals one...

Writing

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Essay: Some End of Year Thoughts

Essay: Telling Things to Strangers

Essay: The Music of Chance

Published Reviews

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Apr.25.2012

Temptation

Published by Huffington Post

After some of these days, I'd give a lot for a quick, mindless read. James Patterson? Nick Sparks? Can't do it. But every once in a while a book is pressed upon me and "...

Audio & Video

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Video: Thoughts On Cities as Characters

Video: Thoughts On Themes

Video: Discussing Novel 'Leaving the World'

Follow Douglas’s tweets

After a fantastically good but very charged week I am taking a day off the written word. So there will be no new... http://t.co/xw0eQ8QBzU — 12 hours 39 min ago

About Douglas

Douglas Kennedy is an internationally renowned and bestselling novelist. His 10 novels have been translated in 22 countries. His newest novel, Temptation, was published in paperback by Atria (a division of Simon and Schuster) in April 2012. His most recent...

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