Giveaway

Mystery & Suspense, Hard-Boiled, Fiction & Literature, Thrillers
Cover of the book Giveaway by Steve Fisher, Classic Mysteries
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Author: Steve Fisher ISBN: 1230000020651
Publisher: Classic Mysteries Publication: October 1, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Steve Fisher
ISBN: 1230000020651
Publisher: Classic Mysteries
Publication: October 1, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English

In his bluejeans and his high-heeled boots, his broad belt and his ducktail, he looked like a tougher kid than he really was. He was seventeen pretending to be nineteen, a runaway from home, broke, in the back streets of Hollywood. And it was there he met a strange, lovely and quite terrifying girl. Absolutely brilliant Fifties noir about a teen runaway in Hollywood who falls in with an aging hustler, her daughter, and countless Vaudeville burnouts working the TV quiz show circuit.

“Giveaway” recalls Horace McCoy at his finest in depicting small-time chiselers seeking fame and fortune at the lowest rung in Hollywood. Corruption in the game show biz is in large supply here, too. The book's ironically timely in this age of American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and all the other migraine contest shows.

You’ll have fun guessing the thinly fictionalized locations in the book like Clifton’s Cafeteria, RKO/Desilu Studios, Sy Devore, Wallich's Music City, and the Hollywood-Highland Rexall Drugs.

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In his bluejeans and his high-heeled boots, his broad belt and his ducktail, he looked like a tougher kid than he really was. He was seventeen pretending to be nineteen, a runaway from home, broke, in the back streets of Hollywood. And it was there he met a strange, lovely and quite terrifying girl. Absolutely brilliant Fifties noir about a teen runaway in Hollywood who falls in with an aging hustler, her daughter, and countless Vaudeville burnouts working the TV quiz show circuit.

“Giveaway” recalls Horace McCoy at his finest in depicting small-time chiselers seeking fame and fortune at the lowest rung in Hollywood. Corruption in the game show biz is in large supply here, too. The book's ironically timely in this age of American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and all the other migraine contest shows.

You’ll have fun guessing the thinly fictionalized locations in the book like Clifton’s Cafeteria, RKO/Desilu Studios, Sy Devore, Wallich's Music City, and the Hollywood-Highland Rexall Drugs.

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