Zeroville
Steve Erickson
Open Road Media
<p>In an alternate Los Angeles, a young man uncovers a life-changing cinematic secret<br></p><p>Hailed as one of Erickson’s finest and most daring novels, <em>Zeroville</em> is a unique love letter to film. It centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him “<em>cinéautistic</em>.” 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 Charles 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—an undertaking that takes on frightening theological dimensions. Electrifying and darkly comic, <em>Zeroville </em>dives into the renegade American cinema of the ’70s and ’80s and emerges into an era for which we have no name.<br></p></br></br>