Description As a young man, John Reynolds fled his provincial hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for Los Angeles, lured by the promise of a life fueled by the excitement of show business.
He lives in Los Angeles..
He produced the highly regarded documentary Hands on a Hardbody and was a co-producer and Tony Award winner for The Book of Mormon.
About the Author Kevin Morris is the author of the acclaimed story collection White Man\'s Problems and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Filmmaker Magazine.
With a compulsively readable narrative that offers a satirical portrait of Hollywood--the deal-making, the politics, the pitches--Gettysburg is an intelligent and powerful book about contemporary America.
When Reynolds impulsively invites the former Playmate and her best friend, a former Miss Universe, to accompany him to the reenactment, his plans for a solitary weekend of self-discovery run amok.
Just before his departure, an ex-Playmate--the very centerfold of Reynolds\'s adolescent daydreams--pitches him her idea for a reality TV show.
Depressed and at a creative dead-end, Reynolds finds himself inexplicably drawn back to the historical setting of his youth: he has secretly signed up to participate in a weekend-long reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in the unlikely California town of Enchino, sixty miles east of Los Angeles.
He resides in a beautiful mansion with his wife and daughter, and his business is booming, but Reynolds remains despondent as his attempts to pivot into producing his own movie projects fail again and again.
But after twenty years in Hollywood, Reynolds feels existentially unfulfilled.
Description As a young man, John Reynolds fled his provincial hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for Los Angeles, lured by the promise of a life fueled by the excitement of show business
