Souls for Sale
By (Author) Rupert Hughes
Introduction by Sarah Gleeson-White
Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books
9th April 2020
United States
Paperback
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
On the wedding night of Remember "Mem" Steddon and Owen Scudder the bride has a change of heart. Abandoning her new husband, she impulsively gets off a Los Angeles-bound train in middle of the desert. Severely dehydrated, she sees an unusual sight: an Arab on a camel. When she recuperates, she comes to realize she's stumbled on a film set and is gi
Rupert Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. Sarah Gleeson-White is Associate Professor in American Literature in the Department of English, University of Sydney. She is the author ofWilliam Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays(Oxford University Press, 2017), andStrange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers(Alabama University Press, 2003), as well as articles and book chapters on Faulkner, McCullers, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery OConnor and Eudora Welty.