High Life (Little House on the Bowery) - Softcover

Stokoe, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933354534 ISBN 13: 9781933354538

Publisher: Little House on the Bowery, 2008

Synopsis

Fiction. Stokoe's novel takes place in Hollywood, the City of Dreams. Jack had come here with one ambition: to become a star, by any means. He wanted to be like the people in the tabloids: Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, Tom and Nicole. Instead, he entered a world seedier than anything he could have imagined, full of drugs and crime, whores, snuff shows, incest, deceit, and despair. With a new introduction by Dennis Cooper, HIGH LIFE shows Matthew Stokoe to be a worthy heir to the great tradition of California noir. HIGH LIFE is an unholy hybrid of Raymond Chandler's best work and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho.

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The latest installment in Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery imprint.

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"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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little House on the Bowery
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1933354534
• ISBN 13: 9781933354538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330