Destiny Express by Rodman, Howard A.

Destiny Express (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644285534)

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Destiny Express by Rodman, Howard A.

Destiny Express

$20.00
Destiny Express by Rodman, Howard A.

Destiny Express

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "daringly imagined and darkly romantic--a moral thriller," Destiny Express captures both the glamour and the terror of an era, dramatizing the perilous moment when art, politics, and destiny converged on the tracks out of Berlin.

Berlin, 1933. The Reichstag smolders in ruins, and a new order is rising from the ashes. For filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou--the legendary team behind Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse--the choices are stark: stay and collaborate with a government that believes in cinema's power to shape reality, or leave everything behind.

Destiny Express is a daringly imagined, darkly romantic tale that blurs the line between history and fiction. Howard A. Rodman conjures a city in crisis and a culture at the crossroads, where artists, ministers, starlets, spies, and surrealists collide in the shadow of encroaching fascism. From the dazzling lights of the UFA soundstage to the smoky intrigue of Berlin's nightclubs, Rodman evokes a world of crime, jazz, cocaine, betrayal, and invention--when film meant more than it ever would again.

Author: Howard A. Rodman
ISBN-10: 1644285533
ISBN-13: 9781644285534
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
By Howard A. Rodman
By Howard A. Rodman
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Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, novelist, and essayist whose work often explores the interplay of politics, history, and art. A past president of the Writers Guild of America West and an award-winning professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Rodman has written films for directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Volker Schlöndorff. His fiction has been praised for its formal daring, rich imagination, and deep engagement with history. Destiny Express is his acclaimed debut novel, first published by Atheneum in 1990 and celebrated for its visionary blending of fact and invention. His novel The Great Eastern has been described as "a sprawling, lavish anticolonial adventure novel, set in the 1850s-1870s in New York, London, Paris, India, and the North Atlantic."

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