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Alfred Hayes is one of the secret masters of the twentieth century novel, a journalist and scriptwriter and poet who possessed an immaculate ear and who wrote with razorsharp intelligence about passion and its payback.
My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you’re only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. She’s a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. She’s just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes.
- Sales Rank: #639610 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-23
- Released on: 2013-07-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Hayes is a master of the withheld detail...This is an insider's manual for all those who would aspire to fame, the ghostly glamour of the movies, and believe they are entitled to
it." —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
“An exciting, engrossing work, written with beautiful economy and the sure skill of an artist who knows what he is doing.... Mr. Hayes has created characters that are the essence of human hopes and frailty.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The most vivid picture of Hollywood since Nathanael West’s Day of the Locust.” —Nelson Algren
“All of Alfred Hayes’s writing has been marked by a fine grace and finish; and My Face for the World to See is like his earlier books in its quiet control of words and effects. Grace, finish, control—or plain style—are all rare qualities in the generally verbose weather of contemporary prose; and when they appear they must be greeted with honest gratitude and praise.” —Chicago Daily Tribune
“Hayes writes luminously about people who can’t help themselves, who can’t resist the temptations that are set to destroy them.... Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences.” —Paul Bailey, The Guardian
“A constant tug back to the LCD of raw humanity is one of the most striking features of Mr. Hayes’s superficially sophisticated writing.... This is an insidious, nasty, nagging book, with a bitter after-taste: but there is no doubt in the world that Mr. Hayes knows what he is about.” —The Irish Times
“In it is captured the essence of Hollywood, the bitterness which lies beneath the pleasant aroma of success and fame.... In the compass of this novel, Hayes, who is one of the best novelists writing today [1958], has captured the ineffable sadness which marches in the van of success, has touched the corrupting qualities of Hollywood which have escaped most of those who have written about this fabled town.” —Los Angeles Times
“Deeply moving.” —New York Herald Tribune
“A small jolting shot of bitter wisdom.” —Newsweek
About the Author
Alfred Hayes (1911–1985) was born into a Jewish family in Whitechapel, London, though his father, a barber, trained violinist, and sometime bookie, moved the family to New York when Hayes was three. After attending City College, Hayes worked as a reporter for the New York American and Daily Mirror and began to publish poetry, including “Joe Hill,” about the legendary labor organizer, which was later set to music by the composer Earl Robinson and recorded by Joan Baez. During World War II Hayes was assigned to a special services unit in Italy; after the war he stayed on in Rome, where he contributed to the story development and scripts of several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà (1946) and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948), and gathered material for two popular novels, All Thy Conquests (1946) and The Girl on the Via Flaminia (1949), the latter the basis for the 1953 film Act of Love, starring Kirk Douglas. In the late 1940s Hayes went to work in Hollywood, writing screenplays for Clash by Night, A Hatful of Rain, The Left Hand of God, Joy in the Morning, and Fritz Lang’s Human Desire, as well as scripts for television. Hayes was the author of seven novels, a collection of stories, and three volumes of poetry. In addition to My Face for the World to See, NYRB Classics publishes In Love.
David Thomson is film critic at The New Republic and has been a frequent contributor to Sight & Sound, Film Comment, The Guardian, and The Independent. He is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film and, most recently, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies. He has also written several novels, including Suspects and Silver Light.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
She'd come [to Hollywood] because of...the usual compulsions: "my face for the world to see."
By Mary Whipple
When the speaker of this novel escapes a party to stare at the ocean from a porch, he sees a young woman, drinking, and "experiencing...some divine rapport with the sea." The undertow draws her down, but she rises, then begins to walk deeper, and the speaker realizes that "she wasn't, as I had thought, wading." Leaping off the porch, he pulls her ashore, and tries to pump out the water that she has inhaled. Revealing more about himself than he probably intends, however, he admits, "I felt rather silly, and the position was obscene, and the damn sand was all over my slacks." No one else at the party is especially upset, either, with one guest remarking, crudely, that "She's going to taste salty for a week."
In clear, precise, and evocative language, author Alfred Hayes explores the intense and fraught relationship which eventually develops between the self-absorbed speaker and the woman he rescues, two flawed people whose accidental meeting leads to an affair. Neither character is named here - and neither is unusual, but their relationship becomes complex, filled with emotional pitfalls. Hayes credits the reader with the intelligence to read between the lines of dialogue and to read scenes with insight, recognizing the differences between what the characters say and do and what they really mean and think. His years of experience as a screenwriter has allowed him to develop a novel in which the reader becomes a participant, imagining the dramatic pauses in dialogue, the tones of conversations, and the words a character does not say at times in which s/he might be expected to reveal something crucial.
Significantly, the author never names the main characters. They are common types in Hollywood. The male speaker, in his late thirties, has been moving back and forth between New York and Hollywood for writing jobs for five years, but he is not a star and has little recognition or self-respect. He has been married for fifteen years. The rescued woman, she tells him, was only eight years old when he got married. She is not gorgeous, not especially talented, and does not get callbacks from auditions, but she thinks of herself as an actress. Though her past has hurt her, she has a romantic view of love and marriage. He, though not miserable in his marriage, has no illusions about the joys of marriage. She imagines a grand life in which she will be a success; he expects nothing more than his next paycheck.
A trip to the bullfights in Tijuana becomes the turning point, and the author's description of the several aspects of this event will break the heart of even a stoic reader. Hayes keeps the reader totally engaged, even with characters who are often less than engaging. His control of both his material and his literary objectives is absolute, his writing style is flawless, and he never resorts to literary trickery to keep the reader focused on two characters who, despite their lack of uniqueness are, nevertheless, emotionally exposed to the reader and for all the world to see. One of my new favorite authors, Alfred Hayes is long overdue to emerge from his unconscionable literary obscurity. If Europa Editions and New York Review Books, with their new reissues of three of his novels, have anything to do with it, he will.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Of Love and Tragedy
By Vivek Tejuja
There are two protagonists in this novel. They have no names. They perhaps do not need names or so Hayes thought while writing this book and maybe he was right. When a reader reads it, he or she does not find the need for them to have names. He is he and she is she and that is all there is to it. The book is a short one – about a doomed love affair and the circumstances surrounding it and not to forget the backdrop where it all happens – Hollywood – right between the glitz and the glamour and the fake lives, so to say.
A screenwriter saves a young woman from drowning. He is living far away from his wife in New York. He is not a great success but has managed by all this while. He is aware of this. He has no connection to speak of to his wife and does not know how he falls for the young woman he saved. All he wanted was to be left alone. The young woman is aware that he is married and she has no concerns about love and is far from its illusions. And yet there is this attraction to this man. The magnetic pull so to say. The story thus takes off and is self-destructive bringing only tragedy in its wake. There is no other way to tell the story but the way Hayes says it – with clear precision and a tight narrative.
Alfred Hayes says something in such few words. I think the same thing would be said by other writers in so many words, almost so many pages. He possessed such an uncanny skill to not only say it the way it was, but to make the reader merge with his prose and become one for that read. He never names his characters and yet there are only so common in Hollywood, wanting not to be just another face.
The man and the woman’s conversations and meetings are the crux of the story. Their lives are chronicled smoothly by Hayes. For instance, the man has been married for fifteen years and this is brought to fore when the woman tells him, she was only eight when he got married. A stark observation such as this becomes magical in the writing of Alfred Hayes.
What I like about the book the most is the fact that the reader is aware that it will not end on a happy note, and yet the urge to keep reading. The power of prose surpasses everything I suppose. The turning point of the story is in Tijuana – where the true faces of both characters are splendidly brought out. There are no perspectives in the book. There is no judgement. There is the storyteller with a story to say. “My Face for the World to See” is a book about love, about choices that we sometimes make and sometimes do not know how they were made, and above all it is about loneliness, life and what we make of it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Life in the fringes of Hollywood, when the American dream doesn't work out
By Lewis Woolston
A woman makes a half baked attempt at suicide in the Pacific ocean, a man sees her and recues her, they start an affair, two lost souls on the fringes of Hollywood with no future but too much past.
This is one of the best novels I've read in a while, I can't understand why it and its author aren't better known. The hard choices of life and the emotional mess of a barren and failed life are eloquently discussed here in a way I've not seen before. Other novels have tackled the Hollywood success stories, this is a Hollywood failure story done so well it will haunt you for weeks after you've finished reading.
Highly recommended.
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