Zeroville - by Steve Erickson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>, and <i>Newsweek </i>Best Book of the Year <p/>It 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. <p/>At 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. <p/>While the movies have appeared in a number of Steve Erickson's novels, from <i>Days Between Stations</i> to <i>The Sea Came in at Midnight</i>, they dominate <i>Zeroville</i> 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, <i>Zeroville</i> is the ultimate novel about the Movies, and the way we don't dream them but rather they dream us.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for <b><i>Zeroville</i></b> <p/>It's simply impossible to explain the intent and the direction of this funny, disturbing, daring and demanding novel--Erickson's best. The set pieces in <i>Zeroville</i> are particularly breathtaking.<br>--<i>The New York Times <p/></i>At root <i>Zeroville</i> is a novel about the nitty-gritty mysteries of the artistic process and about the evolutions of an enthusiast into an artist.<br>--<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>Over his entire career Erickson has challenged readers with a fiercely intelligent and surprisingly sensual brans of American surrealism.<br><i>--Washington Post</i> <p/>Since his first novel and now with <i>Zeroville</i>, his eighth--and best--novel, Erickson has been a singular voice in American fiction, for my money our most imaginative native novelists.<br><i>--The Nation<br></i><br>As unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced.<br>--Jonathan Lethem, author of <i>The Fortress of Solitude</i> <p/>Steve Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for reporting back from the nocturnal side of reality.<br>--Thomas Pynchon, author of <i>Bleeding Edge </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Steve Erickson </b>is the author of several novels, including <i>Tours of the Black Clock</i>, <i>Rubicon Beach</i>, <i>The Sea Came in at Midnight</i>, <i>Our Ecstatic Days</i> and <i>Arc d'X</i>. His novels have been translated into ten languages. Erickson is the editor of the literary magazine <i>Black Clock</i>, published by the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches writing. He also is the film critic for <i>Los Angeles</i> magazine and the author of <i>These Dreams of You</i> (Europa Editions, 2012). He lives in Topanga Canyon with his wife and son.
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