{"title":"Howard A. Rodman","description":"Howard A. Rodman is the author of the novels Destiny Express and The Great Eastern. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Black Clock, and elsewhere. As a screenwriter his films include Joe Gould's Secret; August with Josh Hartnett, Rip Torn, and David Bowie; and Savage Grace with Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne. On television, he's written for Fallen Angels and staffed on HBOMax's The Idol.","products":[{"product_id":"destiny-express-paperback","title":"Destiny Express - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHailed by Thomas Pynchon as \"daringly imagined and darkly romantic--a moral thriller,\" \u003ci\u003eDestiny Express\u003c\/i\u003e captures both the glamour and the terror of an era, dramatizing the perilous moment when art, politics, and destiny converged on the tracks out of Berlin.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerlin, the last day of February, 1933. The Reichstag lies in smoldering ruins, a new world about to spring from its ashes. And now for German filmmakers the choices are stark: stay and collaborate with a government that believes in cinema's power to shape reality, or leave everything behind. \u003ci\u003eDestiny Express\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou, husband and wife, director and screenwriter--together, they made some of the greatest films of all time: \u003ci\u003eM, Metropolis, Doctor Mabuse.\u003c\/i\u003e As each day is torn from the calendar they watch as one by one Bertolt Brecht, Max Ophuls, Billy Wilder, take the next train out. \u003ci\u003eDestiny Express \u003c\/i\u003efollows Lang, von Harbou, and a host of real and fictional others--novelist-turned-minister-of-culture Joseph Goebbels, American café Surrealist Sam Harrison, Mercedes racing champ Otto Merz, film star Rudolf Klein-Rogge, a pair of not-so-secret police--as their paths converge, intertwine, and separate across the grid of Berlin, from the artificial daylight of the UFA soundstage to the artificial night of Berlin's most exclusive and decadent nightclubs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harsh lights, long shadows: the perfect setting for a deeply researched, deftly imagined tale, as one character puts it, of \"crime, gambling, cocaine, jazz, stock exchange maneuvers, smuggling, hypnosis, counterfeiting, violence, Expressionism.\" \u003ci\u003eDestiny Express\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a marriage at the end of its passion, at the edge of history--all at the end of an era when film was to mean more than it ever would again.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101897855199,"sku":"9781644285534","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/p7-cjUqFba9781644285534.webp?v=1781075848"},{"product_id":"the-great-eastern-paperback","title":"The Great Eastern - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the shipyards of London to the ports of New York, from the undersea abyss to the halls of empire, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Eastern\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping tale of invention, rebellion, and the war between creation and destruction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vast iron ship. Two legendary captains. A battle for the soul of an age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the mid-nineteenth century, the world stood on the brink of transformation. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the audacious engineer, dares to build the largest vessel ever conceived--the Great Eastern, a ship so immense it might stitch continents together with telegraphic wire. But beneath the waves lurks Captain Nemo, haunted genius of the submarine \u003ci\u003eNautilus\u003c\/i\u003e, sworn enemy of empire and progress alike. When Nemo discovers Brunel's plans, he vows to destroy both the ship and the world it represents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Into this collision of titans steps another ghost of literature and legend: Captain Ahab, dragged from his watery grave, driven by obsession and vengeance, and drawn inexorably into the struggle between Brunel's vision and Nemo's rage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once a thrilling sea adventure and a subversive reimagining of classic myth, Howard A. Rodman's audacious novel resurrects larger-than-life characters to tell a story that is as strange and wondrous as the century that gave birth to them.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101917941983,"sku":"9781644285541","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TOTOcV-e2a9781644285541.webp?v=1781075884"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/howard-a-rodman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}