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"The Love Thing" is Maggie Love, a 40 year-old screen superstar who has gone to seed, drinking heavily and gaining weight, her star fading fast. She's just starred in a big studio picture titled The Big Ones, and the gist of the novel is the studio's attempts to publicize the new film. Maggie really isn't the protagonist here, there are many characters, but the foremost two are Roger Hare, a wily PR man who will do anything to get into a position of power, and Tony Parker, one of Roger's PR men, but a guy with a bit more class and heart. A big portion of The Love Thing is devoted to Tony's failing marriage with his wife Serena. Events are spread over several weeks as various characters attend meetings and go to the occasional party; here Hirschfeld shines, with his usual dope smoking groovy psychedelic-era sequences of hot pants-wearing girls swinging it to pounding mod freakbeat while older guys watch the action from behind beaded curtains, smoking Chesterfields and wondering how they can get in on the action. Like many Hollywood novels of the era, The Love Thing is concerned with the "death" of the Hollywood studio system and the emergence of the "New Hollywood" (which didn't las

Author

Hugh Barron

Publisher

New English Library Ltd

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780450007705

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.12 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14