John Kaye's two novels have established him as one of today's most stunning chroniclers of Los Angeles, a city of rockers and private eyes, script girls and wiseguys, innocents and Charles Manson. Of The Dead Circus, David Ebershoff wrote in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "The reader is compelled to turn the page....Once the novel's momentum takes hold, [its] pursuit becomes ours." It's 1986, Gene Burk is an ex-cop, fanatical record collector, and private eye. Devastated by the death of his fiancee, Gene becomes ...
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John Kaye's two novels have established him as one of today's most stunning chroniclers of Los Angeles, a city of rockers and private eyes, script girls and wiseguys, innocents and Charles Manson. Of The Dead Circus, David Ebershoff wrote in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "The reader is compelled to turn the page....Once the novel's momentum takes hold, [its] pursuit becomes ours." It's 1986, Gene Burk is an ex-cop, fanatical record collector, and private eye. Devastated by the death of his fiancee, Gene becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the late-sixties death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. As Gene attempts to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller's demise, he is unexpectedly contacted by a survivor of the Manson Family who needs Gene's help to bury her past. As Gene travels back in history to the moment Manson partied alongside Bobby Fuller and the Beach Boys, John Kaye spins a masterful, disturbing portrait of twenty years in Los Angeles, of the promise of the sixties and the hellish realities of the morning after.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0871138492. ISBN/EAN: 9780871138491. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22690.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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New York. 2002. July 2002. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0871138492. 325 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Automatic Art and Design. Author photograph by Caroline Davies Photography. keywords: Literature Mystery Los Angeles America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Of John Kaye's first novel, Newsday wrote, ‘An utterly original L.A. novel. the fiction debut of the year. ' Now, with THE DEAD CIRCUS, Kaye again shows us another side of Los Angeles-a city of rockers and private eyes, script girls and wiseguys, whose golden orbit is pierced by a streak of American evil named Manson. It's 1986. Gene Burk is an ex-cop, a fanatical record collector and private eye. Devastated by the death of his fiancee, a flight attendant, in a plane crash, Gene becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. As Gene attempts to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller's demise, he is unexpectedly contacted by a woman from his fiancee's hometown, a survivor of the Manson Family who needs Gene's help to escape her past. Her last link to Manson is a startling body of evidence of the Family's evil and madness-evidence that several depraved individuals, including Gene's corrupt ex-partner, would love to get their hands on at any cost. As Gene travels back in history to the moment Manson partied alongside Bobby Fuller and the Beach Boys, he lays bare Los Angeles in the sixties, its relative innocence, and its seedy underbelly, and uncovers how those currents have shaped not just history but his own life and those of the people he loves. With infallible storytelling instinct and great heart, John Kaye spins a masterful, disturbing portrait of twenty years in Los Angeles, of the uniquely American compulsions of drugs, alcohol, and fame, and of the promise of the sixties and the bitter realities of the morning after. A native of southern California, inventory #32371.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) First Edition, SIGNED. Signed and inscribed by the author. Book is square, solid and unread with just a trace of shelf wear and a couple of minor dinks to the bottom of its boards. Its unclipped, Brodart protected dust jacket bears only the lightest edge wear. You'll turn cartwheels of glee when this book gets to you! ! !
