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High Life (Little House on the Bowery) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stokoe, Matthew
Creator: Dennis Cooper
Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1156491
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1933354534
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781933354538
ASIN: 1933354534
Publication Date: August 14, 2008 (In 20 Days)
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A Future Classic of Hollywood Noir June 5, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Matthew Stokoe follows up his visceral novel Cows with this brilliant yet graphic crime thriller. I came across Cows on the recommendation of a friend who claimed to have found the most shocking novel I would ever read. It quite possibly is one of the most visceral books in existance, impossible to enjoy but also impossible to put down. High Life is just as gruesome with regards to sex and violence but it is a far superior tale to it's predecessor. The book is told from the point of view of Jack, a nobody who moves to Hollywood to pursue his dreams of working in the film industry. Instead he finds himself living amongst the sleazy criminal underbelly of Los Angeles whilst at the same time investigating the murder of his wife, a hooker he had recently married.
I can't think of many other authors who would think to include drugs, prostitution, murder and blackmail in the same book as tramp torture and illegal organ harvesting but Stokoe isn't a typical author. If you can look past the stomach churning excesses of High Life it is an excellent, well written crime thriller.
A tour de force in new wave thriller writing June 15, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This must rate as one of the most oustanding of modern horror thrillers. Horror, not as in the traditional horror genre, but is in horrifying. Despite the occasionally unsavoury subject matter of Stokoe's writing, this is a rollercoaster ride in terms of plot tension and excitement mixed with terrifying and gratuitous situations. Stokoe's imagination is unlimited in its ferocious approach to fiction. Outrageous moments flash out of nowhere and leave the reader breathless with terror and surprise. In the midst of all this is a complex tale of real mystery and suspense. It's a great story apart from anything, its just that when the added gut churning aspects are thrown in the book becomes a triumph of lewd and degrading twists.
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