num_pages: 331
description: Fiction. Jack had gone to Hollywood with one ambition: to become famous a star exactly how he didn't care. He just wanted to be like the people whose lives he followed in gossip magazines...Instead he found a world more seedy than anything he could have imagined a world of whores and deceit snuff shows incest drugs-and despair. After his wife Karen a hooker is murdered and disemboweled he meets Bella a beautiful woman of immense wealth. In her he sees a chance to make his dreams come true. As it turn out though his nightmare is only beginning. ...An elaborately drawn surgically accurate Hollywood dystopia...-Ellen Miller. Stokoe proves himself a worthy heir to the great tradition of California noir-Henry Flesh.
language: English
title: High Life
publisher: Akashic Books