Zeroville

The novel that inspired the film starring James Franco and Seth Rogen: "e;One of a kind . . . a funny, unnervingly surreal page turner"e; (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post Book World, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review Zeroville centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him "e;cineautistic."e; With an intensely religious childhood behind him, and tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his head, he arrives in Hollywood where he's mistaken for a member of the Manson family and eventually scores a job as a film editor. Vikar discovers the frames of a secret film within the reels of every movie ever made, and sets about splicing them together a task that takes on frightening theological dimensions. Electrifying and "e;darkly funny,"e; Zeroville dives into the renegade American cinema of the 1970s and '80s and emerges into an era for which we have no name (Publishers Weekly). "e;Funny, disturbing, daring . . . dreamlike and sometimes nightmarish."e; The New York Times Book Review "e;Magnificent."e; The Believer "e;[A] writer who has been compared to Vladimir Nabokov, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon."e; Bookmarks Magazine "e;Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced."e; Jonathan Lethem