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Missing Reels

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Missing Reels

The utterly winning, wholly delightful, totally cinematic debut novel of young love, old movies, and an epic search for a long-lost silent film
New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and sheâ€™s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie housesâ€•and most of the time thatâ€™s left trying to look like Jean Harlow?

One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may haveâ€•just possiblyâ€•starred in a forgotten silent film that hasnâ€™t been seen for ages. So naturally, itâ€™s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingÃ©nue.

As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld.

A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

Country	USA
Author	Farran Smith Nehme
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Nehme, Farran Smith
EAN	9781468309270
ISBN	1468309277
Label	The Overlook Press
Manufacturer	The Overlook Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2014-11-12
Publisher	The Overlook Press
ReleaseDate	2014-11-12
Studio	The Overlook Press

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