Widespread Panic A novel
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.07.2022
Verlag
Vintage USASeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
20,1/12,9/2 cm
Gewicht
252 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-593-31310-7
From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine.
Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp—and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
Confidential presaged the idiot internet—and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson—Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he’s here to CONFESS.
“I’m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I’m revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
In Freddy’s viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It’s a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses—and you are here to read and succumb.
Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp—and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
Confidential presaged the idiot internet—and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson—Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he’s here to CONFESS.
“I’m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I’m revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
In Freddy’s viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It’s a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses—and you are here to read and succumb.
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Sleaze & crime in 1950's Hollywood
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There's good news and bad: Anyone turned off by Ellroy's themes and style won't be converted by "Widespread Panic". If on the other hand you like Ellroy's hard-boiled explorations of the corruption, the sleaze and the crime in yesteryear's Los Angeles (as well as the author's ever more clipped prose), this is definitely for you, checking all the boxes.
This time Ellroy tackles sex and crime 1950's Hollywood through the eyes of one Freddy Otash, ex-cop, private eye, as corrupt (and corrupting) as they come. But the world he's living in and making a lot of money from is hardly any better: Blackmail is big business in Hollywood at the time of communist witchhunts and big tabloids looking for the latest bits of sleaze and scandal that movie people like James Dean or Natalie Wood may be involved in and that our man Freddy is willing and able to provide.
Ellroy turns Otash's stories into a crime novel that feels oddly epic but also intimate (at times deliciously unpleasantly so), a gripping novel that ranks with the finest in hard-boiled storytelling, I say!
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