Rudolph Wurlitzer - Slow Fade [Kindle azw3]

Slow Fade comes out of the space between real life and the movies and closes it up for good. A great book: beautiful, funny, and dangerous. — Michael Herr

Slow Fade may be the most traditional of Wurlitzer’s novels, and the time-honored pleasures of the novel are here in abundance: a twisting and turning story about fathers and sons, power and poverty, violence and fate. Some may read it as a “roman à clef” about certain notorious Hollywood players, but that seems rather secondary to me. Wurlitzer has fashioned a rare and wonderful thing — a deeply spiritual novel, without one whiff of incense or candle wax. — Scott Spencer