{"product_id":"karmic-winds-reflections-from-the-smartest-guy-in-hollywood-9781644285626","title":"Karmic Winds: Reflections from the Smartest Guy in Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter M. Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rare Bird Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rare Bird Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Entertainment \u0026amp; Performing Arts - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKARMIC WINDS\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffman, a Yale-trained lawyer and Hollywood insider who once stood at the center of the independent film boom and later found himself stripped of status, freedom, and certainty.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs president of Carolco Pictures, Hoffman helped steer an era-defining slate that included \u003ci\u003eTerminator 2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBasic Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRambo\u003c\/i\u003e, navigating a world of massive egos, creative brilliance, and financial brinkmanship. But ambition has its cost. After the industry turns, legal battles mount, and a federal conviction leads to imprisonment, Hoffman is forced into a confrontation far more exacting than any boardroom negotiation: a reckoning with his own choices, illusions, and moral blind spots. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet partly within the quiet, disorienting confines of Terminal Island federal prison, \u003ci\u003eKarmic Winds\u003c\/i\u003e traces a journey through humiliation and loss toward clarity and acceptance. Drawing on philosophy, Buddhism, and a lifelong search for meaning, Hoffman examines the nature of justice, the seductions of power, and the invisible forces--personal and systemic--that shape our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Neither a tell-all nor a plea for absolution, \u003ci\u003eKarmic Winds\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply reflective account of success and failure, told with intellectual rigor and emotional restraint. It is a story of what remains when the titles disappear, the noise falls away, and one is left alone with the self...and the winds that carried them there.","brand":"Rare Bird Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47967037718679,"sku":"9781644285626","price":2160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781644285626.webp?v=1782912962","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/karmic-winds-reflections-from-the-smartest-guy-in-hollywood-9781644285626","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}