{"product_id":"zeroville","title":"Zeroville","description":"A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year \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":"Default Title","offer_id":33013773074532,"sku":"9781933372396","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/zeroville","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}