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Widespread panic : a novel
Call Number
- LARGE TYPE FICTION ELLR (CEN)
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
New York : Random House Large Print, 2020.
Physical Description
500 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary
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 was the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp--and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet--and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson--Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he's here to CONFESS. In Freddy's viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It's a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Subjects
- Counterculture > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Corruption > Fiction.
- Large type books.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction.