Widespread panic : a novel /

Widespread panic : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Ellroy, James, 1948- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description:	319 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Periodicals -- Fiction. Conspiracies -- Fiction. Scandals -- Fiction. Celebrities -- Fiction. Nineteen fifties -- Fiction. Celebrities. Gossip. Periodicals. Private investigators. Reminiscing. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction. California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood. Historical fiction. Fiction. History. Noir fiction. Historical fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12595280

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ISBN:	9780593319345 0593319346 9780593319352 9780593320310 059332031X
Notes:	"This is a Borzoi book"
Summary:	"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and, most notably--the lead tipster and head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet--and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and internalize the inner workings of Confidential. Dig: You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den. . . You'll gas on overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge. . . You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor. . . You'll be front and center as Freddy runs roughshod over the stars of the silver screen and the demimonde of the Hollywood hills"--
Other form:	Online version: Ellroy, James, 1948- Widespread panic New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 9780593319352

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Summary:	From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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 .<br> <br> "I'm consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I'm revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW ."<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses--and you are here to read and succumb.<br>
Item Description:	"This is a Borzoi book"
Physical Description:	319 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780593319345 0593319346 9780593319352 9780593320310 059332031X