I finished reading Megan Abbott's THE SONG IS YOU. Fred
Zackel in an earlier post cited the "voice". Yes, definitely.
THE SONG IS YOU features Gil "Hop" Hopkins. Hop is a PR man
operating in Hollywood's back lots. The storyline takes the
vanishing of 1950s starlet Jean Spangler as its starting
point and spins a seedy but intriguing tale, in large part
driven by Hop's guilty conscience.
THE SONG IS YOU, 100% classic noir, has nuance, atmosphere,
and style. The raunchy, violent underbelly of the 1950s
Hollywood still attracts writers and readers. This is
something Ed Lacy or Woolrich might've written, and why it's
great fun to read the old pulp noirs. The Black Dahlia gets
mentioned several times. Mob figures also weave through the
story.
I'd don't think I would've gotten much work done in
Hollywood. I'd be looking over my shoulder all the
time.
Ed
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