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The Dead Circus
John Kaye's two novels have established him as one of today's most stunning chroniclers of Los Angeles, a city of rockers and private eyes, script girls and wiseguys, innocents and Charles Manson. In The Dead Circus it's 1986. Gene Burk is an ex-cop, fanatical record collector, and private eye. Devastated by the death of his fiancee, Gene becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the late-sixties death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. As Gene attempts to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller's demise, he is unexpectedly contacted by a survivor of the Manson Family who needs Gene's help to bury her past. As Gene travels back in history to the moment Manson partied alongside Bobby Fuller and the Beach Boys, John Kaye spins a masterful, disturbing portrait of twenty years in Los Angeles, of the promise of the sixties and the hellish realities of the morning after.
Book Details
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2003
- Pages: 323
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.87in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9780802140173
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Thrillers - General
Praise for this book
"John Kaye knows a lot of stories about the city [Los Angeles], and he tells them well....The Dead Circus is a great baggy monster of a book, shifting shape, made up of tales of murder, desertion, and love, as full of life as the city it describes."
"A looming thundercloud of a book; it begins in a Southern California that seems permanently infused with sunshine and ends in one that has been forever submerged beneath the dark surf of a noirish nightmare....Kaye [is] such a compassionate writer."
"Kaye makes real (and humane) what James Ellroy fakes....[A] rich and troubling book."
"A fine new novel...Kaye...explores two of the most tantalizing unanswered questions about Manson."