Welcome to Yesterday - Hardcover

Spiegelman, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401352502 ISBN 13: 9781401352509

Publisher: Miramax, 2006

Synopsis

"It must have been an amusing scene, me shivering on a doorstep with my face in my hands. Ill have to be amused by it sometime." --from Welcome to Yesterday

Not since Dashiell Hammett has dialogue crackled like this. From former New York Post "Page Six" columnist Ian Spiegelman comes a modern noir thriller set in the world of New York gossip. Welcome to Yesterday is a reader's delight, striking the perfect balance of intelligent prose and society's obsession with celebrity -- throw in a murder, and the effect is electric.

Leon Koch is not having a good day. And his night's about to get worse. When a drug-addicted talent agent -- whom Koch, a young reporter at New York's most powerful gossip column, had just disgraced -- is found dead, Koch wakes up at the center of the scandal. Suddenly, the spotlight's on him. He must discover the real story behind the death, while maneuvering through the world of Manhattan gossip -- encountering a steady stream of starlets, superstars, and publicists -- all the while avoiding the police and his new editor-in-chief.

Through his laconic, hard working and harder-drinking antihero, Spiegelman offers readers an insider's glimpse into the world of celebrity journalism with the authority and skill of a born stylist.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian Spiegelman grew up in Bayside, Queens, where he began his career as a journalist. A veteran of the gossip world, he reported for New York magazine and the New York Post’s "Page Six" and is a frequent contributor to Details magazine. His first novel, Everyone’s Burning, was published in June 2003.

From Booklist:

Last we saw of Leon Koch ( Everyone's Burning, 2003), he was drinking and drugging his way through nighttime Queens. Now he is in Manhattan, writing a newspaper gossip column, and his debauched nights are devoted to the search for dirt: "an empire of addicts, psychos, snitches, all of us so interested in each other, each other's business, each other' s bodies, every whisper repeated, every orgasm an item . . ." We pick up Koch's disintegrating life after a notorious talent agent has killed himself. Was he driven to it by one of Koch's columns, or was he murdered? The police like Koch as a suspect, forcing the writer to save his job by figuring out what happened. Spiegelman, a former New York Post gossip columnist, nails the frenetic, drug-fueled, celebrity-nightlife scene with crackling dialogue and go-for-the--jugular cynicism, combining Bright Lights, Big City with the classic tabloid film Sweet Smell of Success. A too-sweet girlfriend adds an unwelcome wisp of sentimentality to this very dry martini of a novel, but don't worry: a little secondhand sunlight is no match for the dark clouds that hover over Leon's world. Bill Ott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Miramax
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1401352502
• ISBN 13: 9781401352509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260