Pacific Tremors

Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who have committed the only sin in the movie business: they've grown old. Having been cast aside, they face their obsolescence and the harsh reality that the art they appreciate (and profit from) is just a business powered by money and celebrity. While Spear is consoled and comforted by his granddaughter, Keneret centers his comeback film on Leet de Loor, a stunning but painfully wooden "actress" he discovers in Fiji.

"Richard Stern is a deft, surprising, and thoroughly original novelist. Pacific Tremors is literate, it's smart, it's affecting. It richly succeeds." --Richard Ford

"Pacific Tremors is brilliant. It sparkles. It has some wonderful scenes, beautifully unfolded, and it builds a surprisingly sympathetic yet clear-eyed picture of a world of Hollywood moviemakers and hangers-on that challenges and undermines the stereotypes without being sentimental and without blurring its focus. In short, a fine novel." --Austin Wright, author of Tony and Susan

"The twilight years of a once-young Turk in Hollywood form the core of the respected Stern's latest, . . . an assured, affectionate, contemplative story on the end of lives well lived. . . . [T]he story has roots that go deep into family and friendship, finding there all the nourishment they need." --Kirkus Reviews
"Stern is a distinguished writer . . . whose audience will appreciate this beautifully controlled, well-crafted work in which he gently pushes a parallel between aging men and a generation of capable younger women." --Publishers Weekly