{"product_id":"zeroville-9781933372396","title":"Zeroville","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steve Erickson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is an August afternoon in 1969. A hippie \"family\" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above L.A. The same day, a young, ex-communicated theology student walks Hollywood Boulevard, having just arrived in town with the images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his shaved head. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but \"cineautistic,\" sleeping in the Roosevelt Hotel where he is haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith. He has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: drugs that frighten him, a sexuality that consumes him, a music he doesn't understand. He's come to Hollywood to pursue his obsession with film, only to find a Hollywood that's as indifferent to film as it is to Vikar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the movies have appeared in a number of Steve Erickson's novels, from \u003ci\u003eDays Between Stations\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Came in at Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e, they dominate \u003ci\u003eZeroville\u003c\/i\u003e with the force of revelation. Over the decade of the seventies and into the eighties, as the old studios crumble before the onslaught of a new renegade generation, Vikar becomes an unlikely film editor, possessed of an astonishing artistic vision. Through his encounters with starlets, burglars, revolutionaries, escorts, punk musicians and veteran film-makers, he discovers the secret that lies in every motion picture ever made. Combining an epic scope with popular accessibility in the spirit of its subject, \u003ci\u003eZeroville\u003c\/i\u003e is the ultimate novel about the Movies, and the way we don't dream them but rather they dream us.","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611957051543,"sku":"9781933372396","price":1672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781933372396.webp?v=1775073998","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/zeroville-9781933372396","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}