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The Casting Director
- Narrated by: Nick McGinley
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Humour & Satire
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Summary
The Casting Director is a black comedy crime thriller about Lee Hamill whose specialty is finding unknowns on the streets of Dublin for low-budget Irish movies.
He's the middleman, matchmaker, and awkward buffer zone between performer and producer. Lee is HR for actors, but one of them wants him dead.
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- Ross
- 24-09-18
lights camera action...
...drawing back the curtins for a sneek peek into the hall of mirrors that is the film industry, with its colourfull cast of egos and characters...McGinley writes an hilariously sharp witted and colurful view into the very very far side of the camera lens!
so grab you pop corn, sit back and enjoy the ride with The Casting Director.