An underdog love story set against the backdrop of Los Angeles' later Obama Years. Writer/director Colin Thompson's debut novel is a late coming-of-age story wrung from the sadness and madness of banging one's head against the moon on the fringes of Tinsel Town. "THE SPOILS is a glorious meditation on failure, missed opportunities, and making your own wins. It's about art and beauty and athleticism and other people's wives, about taking what's yours, losing it, and getting it back again, sort of. Colin Thompson has written an unapologetic and unforgettable narrator: a charming screw-up who, like most of us, vacillates wildly between extreme self-loathing and outrageous arrogance. He's not a Bad Guy. He's lovable and wrongheaded, frenetic and full of restless exuberance. He's scathingly funny and outrageously inappropriate, a guy with a good heart who can't catch a break." - Kimberly King Parsons (author of Blacklight & We Were The Universe) Venice, California. 2014. Ryan Wilson, a once hopeful aspiring screenwriter is transitioning to hopelessness. The clock, the bank, the zodiac-they all point toward the exit door of this creative dream. Hapless and broke at 31-years-old, he finds himself one more sandbag for the hourglass, taking a job coaching middle school lacrosse in the affluent neighborhood of Brentwood. In a town and entertainment industry built on connections, a pool of wealthy parents is a great place to look for a guy with everything to gain. And as luck would have it, a connection reveals itself: Camilla Emerson Tourney, the wife of his Hollywood Hero, writer/director colossus Buck Tourney. Trapped in a crisis of her own-hers of apathy and routine-the attraction is immediate but fraught: is he just some sort of slum crush? A dive-bar holiday for a bored Hollywood Aristocrat? And what about him? Is she only magnetic because of who her husband is? Had they met in Denver would he feel the same? At times and at turns warped with polemic introspection, The Spoils is a ride through the looking glass of the young-ish American Man. Neurotic, hedonistic, sensitive and tawdry, Ryan Wilson takes us along as he sailor dives into the murky waters of adulthood: the battleground of infidelity and integrity, drive and success, love, status, and the ruthlessness of trying to make it in Hollywood.Book Review: The Spoils of Time Trilogy by Penny Vincenzi (#1 No . These books will appeal to anyone who likes social history, intrigue, family dramas, romance and much much more. They are well written and in a way that keeps . The Spoils of Time: A World History from the Dawn of Civilization . The Spoils of Time is a world history book that covers the dawn of civilization through the early Renaissance. The book is written by C. V. Wedgwood and has . The Spoils of Dust - Applied Research and Design In The Spoils of Dust this bargain'' redemption and its conjuring of an ecologically rich lake-like'' landscape is the backdrop for investigating contemporary relationships between landscape architecture, engineering, and perception. Thick_Dudle | Spoils from my friends @aldoshoes_sa . - Instagram Spoiler book. Everything. Initially but So something else. Example. OCR. ALDO Tin sAl coipfon ALDO n Linhn 4PN eatatoin PIntes fsbsbanuen 5O.RR . Spoil - Texas A&M University Press Spoil. By Alyse Bensel. 978-1-62288-273-1 Paperback 6 x 9 x 0 in 80 pp . Book preview. Media: Request a review copy. Professors: Exam copy availability . A Division of the Spoils. A Novel | Paul Scott - Anthony Smith Books London: Heinemann, 1975. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Jacket designed by Larry Learmonth. Top edge a bit spotted. Book Review: Dividing the Spoils, by Robin Waterfield - HistoryNet Book Review: Dividing the Spoils, by Robin Waterfield. Robin Waterfield chronicles the wars between Alexander's successors for control of his . The Spoils of Poynton | Victorian England, Henry James, Realism The Spoils of Poynton, short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial titled The Old Things in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896. Guy Spoils New Harry Potter Book (SPOLIERS) - Doomworld Guy Spoils New Harry Potter Book (SPOLIERS). By NightmareZer0, July 17, 2005 in Everything Else · Prev · 1 · 2 · Next; Page 1 of 2. Recommended .