Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to
finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems
propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a
substantial debt of gratitude and whose top executives are top
friends of his. Why, then, is he left to languish in the grand
hotel owned by Verdugo, which in Spanish means executioner? What is
the relationship between Victor, who can write equally well with
left hand or right, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, about whom he once
made a film, a film which is showing on TV as he enters his suite?
Who is the beautiful girl whom he sees in the lobby, and is she the
same girl who is later found dead under sinister circumstances? Is
Victor England a victim or a killer? There have been many novels
about Hollywood. There has never been one like this. Frederic
Raphael's vision of California Time is of a 'sequence of presents',
and his innovations in the form of the novel serve only to add to
the multi-faceted strangeness of the 'celluloid capital'. Victor
England, young and old at the same time, is a man of many wives and
many films, rich and yet dependent on the bounty of a failing
industry, whose golden slave he is.
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