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Screen Play: A Novel (2010)

by Chris Coppernoll(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1434764826 (ISBN13: 9781434764829)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

David C. Cook

review 1: Every now and then a book comes your way that you aren't sure you will enjoy. Then the surprise happens as you discover an author that is unknown to you who simply blows you away with their writing ability. This is what I experienced as I started to read and could not put down this book.The story opens as the main character, Harper, a new Christian and believer, is preparing to leave behind a bad year and fly to New York. She has been given the opportunity as the understudy for the lead role in a theatrical production of a play that has not seen the stage in 30 years.From there the story takes on a life of its own as Harper begins to accept how God works in our lives and to trust in Him. Harper joins an online dating group based on the input from her best friend Avril.... more In surprise she meets James and Luke, both are Christian men. James is a widower with 2 small children who lives in San Diego. Luke is a pilot/logger in Alaska. Harper finds herself drawn to Luke and decides to maintain contact as friends as there is so much distance between New York and Alaska. She feels the same way about James.The lead actor, Helen Payne, is fired by the Director Ben Hughes. Harper suddenly finds herself playing the lead role. Harper puts her trust in God and gives the play and role a whole new and fresh perspective. The play receives high acclaim in the theatrical reviews that hits all the papers. At a party given by the New York Theatrical Society Harper is introduced to Joseph Haggen, a Hollywood Director.Harper is contacted by her Agent asking her to come to California as the offers are pouring in. Harper leaves New York after the play closes and flies to California. When she arrives, her agent informs her that she has received an offer to play the lead female role in a movie that Joseph Haggen is producing.This story is truly exceptional as it takes all the fears and worries Christians experience each and every day. There is such a level a realism and fiction weaved together to provide the reader with an interesting and well written faith-based story.If Christian-based is your genre, then pick up a copy of this book.
review 2: Screen Play (David C. Cook 2010), the third novel from author Chris Coppernoll is an inspiring story of friendship and faith set amidst the complexities of Hollywood and cleverly combined with an uplifting love story reminiscent of Sleepless in Seattle. At thirty, Harper fears her chances for a thriving acting career and finding true love are both fading fast. After a devastating year of unemployment and isolation in Chicago, Harper is offered an unexpected role in a Broadway play—as understudy to New York’s biggest diva––and everything in Harper's world changes. Harper also hopes to find love in NYC, but when it doesn't happen, she reluctantly signs up to an online matchmaking site. Frustration mounts when the only match Harper is even remotely interested in lives in a remote territory on the opposite coast, thousands of miles away. A faith conversation during her year in Chicago shapes how Harper sees everything. She wants to see God at work in her life, but His ways are mysterious, and she's faced with challenges in the secular world of Broadway. Harper feels like an actress who doesn’t act and a woman in love with someone she's never even seen, but God's about to change all that. Linked through the contemporary, text message world of internet dating, Harper learns it's possible to care for someone outside her own universe, even when that someone can't be touched, and ultimately how to love. She reaches out through the impersonal world of cyberspace and becomes more aware than ever of God reaching out to her. Sometimes the person farthest away from you, she discovers, is the one who's closest to your heart. “Screen Play is a story about believing that God can do great things, even when we’re at our weakest,” say Coppernoll. “I hope readers will be swept up in Harper’s story instantly and that their excitement won’t let up until the very last page.” Romantic Times Online Magazine has given Screen Play 4 ½ stars and selected the novel as a “Top Pick”. less

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