Now, as Rachman promotes his equally raved-about second book, "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers," he says Pitt's company wrote a screenplay for the first novel but "decided it didn't work as a film." Pitt's production company, Plan B, optioned the rights to the critically heralded story about a group of journalists when it became an international bestseller and made the Scotiabank Giller Prize long list in 2010. 33.TORONTO - Brad Pitt is no longer involved, but Vancouver-raised novelist Tom Rachman still has a screen deal for his smash debut effort, "The Imperfectionists."
The Imperfectionists interweaves the stories of eleven unusual and endearing characters in a novel about endings - the end of life, the end of sexual desire, the end of the era of newspapers - and about what might rise afterwards. 9781849160315 The Imperfectionists 33.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/contemporary 'Spectacular' New York Times And the publisher is less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer. The obsessive reader is intent on finishing every old edition, leaving her trapped in the past.
The editor-in-chief is pondering sleeping with an old flame. Eccentric and beloved, it now faces demise in the new digital era. The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire's fancy. Funny, poignant, occasionally breathtaking' Financial Times
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