Ggpraise For Indecent Proposal

Jack Engelhard’s
Indecent Proposal

Praise for Indecent Proposal
“Precise, almost clinical language…is this book fun to
read? You betcha.” The New York Times
“Vivid, cool and muscular….it’s beautifully written. ” The

Philadelphia Inquirer
“A gut- wrenching study on love, money and trust.”
NPR

This is the Kindle Edition of an international sensation
in literature and film.
Theclassic novel that stirred the world’s conscience
and launched the Robert Redford/Demi Moore megahit from Paramount Pictures.
The Paramount motion picture, released April 1993,
was based exclusively on this book, a novel that was
translated around the world into more than 22
languages.

The film earned in excess of $266 million at the box
office worldwide.
Copyright 1988, 1992, 2001, 2010,2012 by Jack
Engelhard
Copyright
sequence…1988,
Donald
I.
Fine
Publishing…1992, Pocket Books- movie- tie- in…2001,
ComteQ Publishing... 2010, iUniverse… 2012, Kindle
All rights reserved.
This is a work of fiction, entirely.

This is dedicated to Leslie, David, Toni, Sarah,
and Jeffrey Farkas, and to the loving memory of
my parents, Noah and Ida.
Jack Engelhard is an Americannovelist, born in
Toulouse, France. He is widely known and acclaimed as a
novelist whose themes touch on deep moral dilemmas.
Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel
Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22
languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture
starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His awardwinning book of memoirs "Escape From Mount Moriah,"
newlyreleased in paperback, has been honored for writing
(MPA) and film (CANNES). Engelhard`s themes have
been termed "powerfully seductive" by The New York
Times, which also acclaimed his prose for "precise,
almost clinical language." The Philadelphia Inquirer cited
his writings as "vivid, cool and muscular." Engelhard can
be reached, and his works can be viewed, at

www.jackengelhard.com.Works from Jack Engelhard
Escape From Mount Moriah – a memoir, the opening
chapter adapted into film by Nikila Cole under the
title My Father, Joe

The Horsemen – nonfiction
The Girls of Cincinnati – fiction
Slot Attendant: A novel about a Novelist – fiction
The Bathsheba Deadline – fiction
The Days of the Bitter End – fiction
Deadly Deception – fiction
Indecent Proposal – fiction;developed into the
Paramount motion picture

Author’s Cut for Kindle
Indecent Proposal caused a worldwide stir when it
first came out in 1988 and the controversy
doubled up when it was turned into a movie
(taking in more than $266 million at the box
office internationally.) Paramount kept to the theme
but made many changes, mostly in sidestepping
the interior business such as the Arab/Israeliconflict
that is this book’s subtext and that is dealt with here
as an unintended microcosm of the conflict. (I never
intended to get political.)
However, the moral dilemma issue that is central to
this work seems to be the reason that both book and
movie are still read, viewed, debated, still
controversial, and still vibrant. I wrote the novel
straight, as a drama about a married couplethat
is suddenly faced with an irresistible (and sinful)
temptation. I had nothing else in mind except to write
a novel as well as I could. I never planned to write
“commercial” or “literary.” That’s for the experts to

decide…if there are still experts left in whom we
can trust. I have even complained about this (foolishly),
that sometimes, as in this case, a novel gets to be
so big thatit becomes everybody’s property except
your own. You, the author, have no more say. Well,
that’s how it should be.
The novelist has one job, and that is to search, find
and produce whatever artistic gifts were deeded to
him by God Almighty.
-I am still asked if I take exception to the
changes Hollywood made from page to screen and
my answer remains, no. A novel must sink or swim
on its...