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Synopsis
Fiction. Jack had gone to Hollywood with one ambition: to become famous, a star, exactly how he didn't care. He just wanted to be like the people whose lives he followed in gossip magazines...Instead he found a world more seedy than anything he could have imagined, a world of whores and deceit, snuff shows, incest, drugs-and despair. After his wife, Karen, a hooker, is murdered and disemboweled, he meets Bella, a beautiful woman of immense wealth. In her he sees a change to make his dreams come true. As it turn out, though, his nightmare is only beginning. "...An elaborately drawn, surgically accurate Hollywood dystopia..."-Ellen Miller. "Stokoe proves himself a worthy heir to the great tradition of California noir"-Henry Flesh.
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The latest installment in Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery imprint.
From the Back Cover
"Stokoe'sin-your-face prose and raw, unnerving scenes give way to a skillfully plottedtale that will keep readers glued to the page..."
Publisher's Weekly
"One of the mostunstinting, imaginative, brutal, and original contemporary novels ever writtenabout the punishments that come with the prioritization of fame..."
Dennis Cooper
"High Life isperhaps the greatest neglected masterpiece of true noir. I've never readanything like it before or since." "Chandler on heroin, Hammet on crack, JamesM. Cain with a blowtorch..."
Ken Bruen
"Stokoeproves himself a worthy heir to the great tradition of California noir. Brutaland unflinching in its depiction of violence and sex, his book is like anunholy hybrid of Raymond Chandler's best work and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho."
Henry Flesh
Hollywood. The City of Dreams at the end of the nineties.Jack has one ambition - to get famous. He doesn't care how. He just wants to belike the people he sees in tabloid magazines and on TV: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp,Tom and Nicole, Arnie, Bruce, Sly.... But the desire for fame has a dark sideand he finds himself in a world of drugs and crime, whores, snuff shows, incest,deceit and despair. When his wife is found dead - murdered and disemboweled - andthe search for her killer leads him to the femme fatale of all femmes fatales,he sees a chance to make his dreams of money and fame come true. But the Cityof Dreams can also be the City of Nightmares and it's going to be a long, darkride before Jack wakes up.
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- PublisherAkashic Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1888451327
- ISBN 13 9781888451320
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages326
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