Zeroville

By: Steve Erickson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie "family" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift - "the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies" - tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but "cineautistic", sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he's haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith. Vikar has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: strange drugs that frighten him, a strange sexuality that consumes him, a strange music he doesn't understand. Over the course of the 70s and into the 80s, he pursues his obsession with film from one screening to the next and through a series of cinema-besotted conversations and encounters with starlets, burglars, guerrillas, escorts, teenage punks, and veteran film editors, only to discover a secret whose clues lie in every film ever made.

©2013 Steve Erickson (P)2014 Blackstone Audio

It

I am not sure what to make of this. Might have been genius. It is something

I haven’t the words

I am so thankful I didn’t exit early. This is book can only be eclipsed by Infinite Jest( but it is close)

Mind-boggling and awesome!

This book is great! I think I'd have to read it again to really figure out what the ending means, but thematically the novel touches on the circularity of narrative, the complexity of reality, and the problem of evil. Really fantastic. Would recommend to anyone interested in a challenging read. Also, Bronson Pinchot as the narrator is fantastic. Best narrator I've listened to on Audible so far.

Audible, please add more books by Steve Erickson!

Love this book, but there are so many more great books by Erickson that could be added to Audible's library. Audible, please add more of his books!

Just marvelous

A wonderful story and first-rate narration. I just can't day enough good things about this.