bFrom the Academy Award-winning cowriter of iBirdman/i, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of iMisery/i and iKiss of the Spiderwoman/i about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece./bbrbrPablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. iThe Crossed-Out Notebook/i is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day.br brThe clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, iThe Crossed-Out Notebook/i is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.