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The Finding

by Dustin Beall Smith

A film project draws close to prophecy

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A film project draws close to prophecy

Set in the summer of 1987, the novel follows veteran Hollywood filmmaker Henry Barnes as he develops a thriller about buried treasure. The project’s mystical subject matter begins to intersect with his private life: estranged from his wife and contemplating his future, Barnes becomes entangled in a Hopi prediction concerning a lost treasure and global calamity. As production approaches, the boundary between the film’s material and Barnes’s sense of his own fate grows uncertain. The book brings together Hollywood filmmaking, marital estrangement, prophecy, and questions of atonement, with the making of a movie serving as the frame for a conflict between creative invention and lived reality.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set around Hollywood filmmaking and film production.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving prophecy, fate, and atonement.
  • Readers looking for a novel that connects a creative project with its maker’s personal life.

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Film production and creative workProphecy and fateAtonementArt and realityMarital estrangement

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Book overview

The Finding is a gripping novel about one man's entanglement with prophecy, fate, and atonement.

It's the summer of 1987 and Henry Barnes, a veteran Hollywood film producer, director, and movie star, has embarked on a new project: a thriller with mystical overtones about buried treasure.Barnes is estranged from his beautiful wife Martha, an actress and dancer famous for her fiery personality. Living alone and contemplating his own future and the premise of his film, he's drawn to prophecy for dramatic purposes but unnerved by it, too. Led by fate to move the setting of his film incrementally closer to home, he becomes enmeshed in the Hopi prediction of a lost treasure's return and its signal of global calamity.As his film works its way through preproduction and nears its shooting date, Barnes finds himself increasingly unable to distinguish art from life, creativity from reality, and the world-ending prophecy at the heart of his film from his own headlong destiny.

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