Playing Tahoe

Turner Publishing Is Proud To Present ANew Edition Of Sandra Hochman's, Playing Tahoe First Published By Wyndham Books In , Hochman's Fifth Novel Is An Unsparing And Noholdsbarred Look At The Music Business Through The Eyes Of AWoman Who Bets It AllFrom The Wyndham Edition: At Age Forty She Was Americas Greatest Pop LyricistFrom Rock And Roll Through New Wave, Sylvia Lundholm And Her Composerpartner Nick Dimani Made Millions While Creating The Platinum Records In Which Millions Found The Sound Of Their Own Longing And JoySet Against The Background Of The Rock And Roll Music Business In New York City And The Casinos And Hotels And Ski Lifts Of Lake Tahoe, Playing Tahoe Captures That Specific Moment In Sylvia Lundholm's Life When She Recognized That Love Was The One Song She Could Not Write, And That Only By Breaking With The Superhype Celebrity Of Her Career Might She Learn In The Hands Of Her New LoverRevson Cranwell Was The Male Courtesan Every Woman WantedHe Was Cold, Wellbred, IndifferentBut He Made Her HotShe Had Everything Else That Money Could BuyNow She Wanted HimHe Was Her Song, Her Lover, Her Best FriendShe Would Kill For HimBut He Would Make That UnnecessaryIn Tahoe, At Harrah's, Where Dimani Is Performing, Sylvia And Dimani Meet To Create ALast Great Album That Will Cover The World With His MusicBut As The Tendrils Of Dimani's Music Threaten To Clutch Sylvia Back Into The World She Is So Desperate To Leave, The Clash Between Her Passion For Revson And Dimani's Desperation For Sylvia's Poetry Erupts Into Coldblooded ViolencePlaying Tahoe Will Give You Insight Into The World Of Rock And Roll And Big CasinosBut Above All It Will Teach You The Games Of AWoman Who, Gambling For Love, Desperately Wants To Hold On To The Richness Of Her Own LifeSandra Hochman Has Created ANovel That Explores The Guts Of AWoman In The Midst Of AChange, Who Will Overturn The American Dream To Follow AStranger, Revson, Who Is ANew Antihero Of Modern Fiction.
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