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A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price--a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty
At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and the city exploded in violence. Fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: murders that occurred outside active rioting sites, including some committed by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores.
A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time through seventeen interconnected first-person narratives. Focusing on a sliver of Los Angeles almost completely ignored by the media during the riots, Ryan Gattis paints a portrait of modern America itself--laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. Resonant with the voices of gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in these extraordinary circumstances, All Involved is a literary tour de force.
"A symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel....It swallowed me whole."--David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas
"A heartbreaking portrait of a city tearing itself apart."--Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
"Corrosive, timely, vividly realized scenes of urban warfare and thwarted dreams by a writer who clearly knows his subject."--Joyce Carol Oates
"A monumental achievement." --Dennis Lehane
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- Title All Involved
- Author Ryan Gattis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Advance Reader's
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, NY
- Date 2015-04
- ISBN 9780062378798 / 0062378791
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Dixon
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Race relations
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2015, Page 0
- Library Journal, 11/15/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/15/2014, Page 64
- New York Times Book Review, 06/21/2015, Page 19
- New Yorker (The), 05/11/2015, Page 77
- Publishers Weekly, 02/16/2015, Page 0
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