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Zeroville
Author: Steve Erickson
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc
Published: 12/12/2014
Category: Fiction
Synopsis
On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie family led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliftthe two most beautiful people in the history of the moviestattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but cineautistic, sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where hes haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith. Vikar has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: strange drugs that frighten him, a strange sexuality that consumes him, a strange music he doesnt understand. Over the course of the seventies and into the eighties, he pursues his obsession with film from one screening to the next and through a series of cinema-besotted conversations and encounters with starlets, burglars, guerrillas, escorts, teenage punks, and veteran film editors, only to discover a secret whose clues lie in every film ever made.