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Widespread Panic: Freddy Otash Confesses by James Ellroy (Hardcover, 2021)
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A return to the sleazy underbelly of Ellroy's 1950's Los Angeles From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den; you'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge; you'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor; you'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'.Product Identifiers
PublisherCornerstone
ISBN-139781785152573
eBay Product ID (ePID)23049061976
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Book TitleWidespread Panic: Freddy Otash Confesses
AuthorJames Ellroy
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2021
Number of Pages336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240mm
Item Width162mm
Item Weight542g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJames Ellroy
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 28 Jan, 2022
GROOOOVE with James Ellroy on the highs and hells of 'Hollyweird'...
Admittedly I'm a James Ellroy fan and so inherently biased. The novel is not perfect and kind of trails off without invoking its own supernatural beginning (Fred Otash, devious private detective of the 1950s and '60s in Los Angeles is writing his memoirs in Hell), but it is full of Ellroy's irreverent zest and inventive nastiness, trawling through the underbelly of LA and the 'Hollyweird' world of crime and corruption mixing it up with movie stars and the entertainment business. It's fun and just as thought-provoking as uncomfortably comic, but lurched so far into reputational hatchet jobs on famous directors and stars that the impact was strangely diminished rather than shocking. Quite a few reviewers have pointed that out and normally I prefer to read a book to see for myself. But I found myself agreeing it went too far without a clear and obvious reason why Ellroy's particular targets were so despised by him. Putting it another way, it just didn't ring true and felt like grudge-writing. That said it IS wrenchingly and excruciatingly funny and eminently re-readable. Definitely recommended and glad I bought it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 May, 2024
no issues great.
no issues great.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
