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Hollywood Moon
Joseph Wambaugh
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Description for Hollywood Moon
Paperback. Wambaugh delivers another dose of black humour and imaginative richness set in the surreal precinct of Hollywood Station. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 222.
Hollywood certainly isn't your typical police precinct, but in Hollywood Moon, follow-up to Hollywood Station and Hollywood Crows, the cops of that surreal place seem called upon to deal with an even greater share of weirdness than normal. Drag queens in delicto flagrante behind dumpsters, dead hobos pushed around in wheelchairs, men in massage parlours receiving unspeakable injuries from Barbie dolls. That's not to say that the cops themselves don't have their own peculiarities: Hollywood Nate still dreams of movie stardom, but worries as he gets older that he's too good-looking to be a character actor. Then there's Aaron Sloane, ... Read more
Hollywood certainly isn't your typical police precinct, but in Hollywood Moon, follow-up to Hollywood Station and Hollywood Crows, the cops of that surreal place seem called upon to deal with an even greater share of weirdness than normal. Drag queens in delicto flagrante behind dumpsters, dead hobos pushed around in wheelchairs, men in massage parlours receiving unspeakable injuries from Barbie dolls. That's not to say that the cops themselves don't have their own peculiarities: Hollywood Nate still dreams of movie stardom, but worries as he gets older that he's too good-looking to be a character actor. Then there's Aaron Sloane, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849163545
SKU
V9781849163545
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-24
About Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh served with the LAPD for fourteen years, beginning to write during his last three. His first novel, The New Centurions, was published in 1971 to critical acclaim and popular success. He followed this with a series of highly acclaimed novels including The Blue Knight, The Choirboys, The Black Marble and non-fiction titles such as The Onion Field. He ... Read more
Reviews for Hollywood Moon
'Hilarious black comedy... fabulous characters with an enviable turn of phrase and a way with street language that zings off the page' Daily Express.
Daily Express
'The one truly authentic voice of LA crime' Daily Mirror.
Daily Mirror
'Wambaugh's best book yet... full of hilarious anecdotes that ring absolutely true' Stephen King.
Stephen King
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Daily Express
'The one truly authentic voice of LA crime' Daily Mirror.
Daily Mirror
'Wambaugh's best book yet... full of hilarious anecdotes that ring absolutely true' Stephen King.
Stephen King
... Read more