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Roman Polanski will be too late to complete his film...at being granted GBP2.7 million bail by a Swiss court may be tempered by the fact that he will be too late to finish his film The Ghost. Mandrake learns that the film by the 76-year-old director, who faces extradition to America on... In this article: Roman Polanski, The Ghost, Robert Harris, and Prince Frederick of Prussia |
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | 3 days ago
Roman Polanski freed on $4.5 million bail
...Scorsese and the British actress Emma Thompson. The director of Rosemary's Baby and The Pianist has spent his two months in jail working on his latest film, The Ghost, which he is determined to show at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
In this article: Roman Polanski, Interpol, US, Rosemary's Baby, Emma Thompson, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and The Pianist
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Reuters | 3 days ago
Swiss to release Polanski as soon as bail posted
...detention could lead to a big financial loss and damages claims against him if the director was unable to finish his new movie "The Ghost," due for its premiere at the Berlin film festival in February. Polanski's Swiss lawyer declined to...
In this article: Roman Polanski, Justice Department, Oscar, Interpol, United States, Champagne, Paris, and Rosemary's Baby
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Yahoo! News | 4 days ago
Swiss court grants Roman Polanski bail (Reuters)
...detention could lead to a financial loss and damages claims against him if the director was unable to finish his new movie "The Ghost," due for its premiere at the Berlin film festival in February. His arrest led to a political storm in...
In this article: Roman Polanski, United States, Reuters, Paris, and Academy Award
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Stuff | 4 days ago
Roman Polanski granted bail
...$40 million that investors had put up and ruinous damages claims against him if the director was unable to finish his new movie The Ghost, due for its premiere at the Berlin film festival in February. His arrest led to a political storm in...
In this article: Roman Polanski, Oscar, United States, and Rosemary's Baby
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Swiss court grants Roman Polanski bail
...about $40 million that investors had put up and ruinous damages claims against him if the director was unable to finish his new movie "The Ghost," due for its premiere at the Berlin film festival in February. Polanski's lawyers have been at...
In this article: Roman Polanski, United States, Oscar, Rosemary's Baby, and Repulsion
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | November 14, 2009
Olivia Williams: 'I just do what I'm told'
That "extremely intellectually and artistically high-powered film" was Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Robert Harris thriller The Ghost, a roman-a-clef in which a recently retired British prime minister - a thinly disguised Tony...
In this article: Olivia Williams, Roman Polanski, Joss Whedon, Dollhouse, Ian Dury, Kevin Costner, Kim Cattrall, Andy Serkis, and The Postman
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The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris.
In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghost-writer, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances.
The dead man has been ghosting the autobiography of a recently unseated British prime minister. The latter is one Adam Lang, a thinly-disguised version of Blair. The fictional counterpart of Cherie Blair is depicted as a sinister manipulator of her husband. So astonishing are the implied allegations of the roman à clef that, had it concerned a lesser figure and were Harris a less eminent novelist, Britain's libel laws may have rendered publication impossible. Harris told The Guardian before publication: "The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him." The thriller acquires an added frisson from the fact that Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of Blair and a donor to New Labour funds.
The New York Observer, headlining its otherwise hostile review The Blair Snitch Project, commented that the book’s "shock-horror revelation" was "so shocking it simply can’t be true, though if it were it would certainly explain pretty much everything about the recent history of Great Britain."
- Name:
- The Ghost
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Genre:
- Thriller novel
- Written By:
- Robert Harris
- Published By:
- Hutchinson
- Length:
- 384 pp (first edition, hardback)- 310pp (second edition, paperback)
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback)(First edition) - Trade Paperback (Second edition)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 26 September 2007
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