{"product_id":"9781480409996","title":"Zeroville: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe novel that inspired the film starring James Franco and Seth Rogen: “One of a kind . . . a funny, unnervingly surreal page turner” (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZeroville\u003c\/i\u003e centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him “\u003ci\u003ecinéautistic\u003c\/i\u003e.” 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 “darkly funny,” \u003ci\u003eZeroville \u003c\/i\u003edives into the renegade American cinema of the 1970s and ’80s and emerges into an era for which we have no name (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Funny, disturbing, daring . . . dreamlike and sometimes nightmarish.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Magnificent.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[A] writer who has been compared to Vladimir Nabokov, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon.” —\u003ci\u003eBookmarks Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced.” —Jonathan Lethem","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125508030704,"sku":"9781480409996","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480409996_p0.jpg?v=1769893982","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480409996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}