Sick City: A Novel - Softcover

O'Neill, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061789747 ISBN 13: 9780061789748

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

Meet Jeffrey and Randal, two desperate junkies and your guides on this top-to-bottom fun-house tour of Hollywood's underbelly. From infamous crime scenes to celebrity treatment centers, Sick City is an outrageous page-turning adventure set in the sun-bleached wilds of LA.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony O'Neill is the author of Digging the Vein and Down and Out on Murder Mile, and the coauthor of Neon Angel and the New York Times bestseller Hero of the Underground. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Review:

“A wildly fun read.” (Willamette Week)

“Like the bastard child of Dashiell Hammett and Evelyn Waugh....With Sick City, Tony O’Neil confirms his comic voice....If dark humor, punk sensibility, literary sophistication and pointed satire are among your addictions, you should find Sick City a rewarding read.” (The Rumpus.net)

“What Sick City does is takes the grit and grime of, say, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs and makes it coherent...within the context of a caper novel, as imagined by Elmore Leonard....Sick City makes Jim Thompson’s novels look like Little Golden Books.” (Bookreporter.com)

“You may feel disturbed by this very realistic account of addicts on a mission.” (CurledUp.com)

“O’Neill delivers a Hollywood thriller that’s equal parts acerbic social commentary à la Burroughs’s Naked Lunch and extraordinary crime fiction misadventure....Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Warren Ellis will cherish this twisted tale.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“[An] inspired comedy of errors...a post-punk crack at Hollywood’s legacy that’s funnier than its predecessor, and just as cringe-inducing...infused with enough black humor to make Bill Burroughs choke on his apple” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Like a Robert Altman film scripted by Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs...Sick City is appealing in its unsentimentalism, disgusting in its details--and, almost unbelievably, funny.” (Booklist)

“Sick City is a disturbingly twisted ride through Hollywood’s underbelly with a degenerate cast of colorfully interwoven characters. I loved the whole f**ked up journey.” (Slash)

“Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal. One of the best books written about LA in a long time. O’Neill could be our generation’s Jim Thompson.” (James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning)

“Tony O’Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels. Cover your ears, ladies; thanks to O’Neill, the cries of pain can be heard from one sick city to another. Just use your eyes.” (Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061789747
• ISBN 13: 9780061789748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384