β A C Fuller
π Fiction
π
2019;1933
π Vivid Books
π English
β 172 KB
π 2 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
New York Graphic
β Scribed by Adam Lloyd Baker
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A delicious, darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent.
Meet Virgil Strauss, a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness--a la Weegee--to the obscene, malevolent and sanguine viscera of New York culture.
To his disapppointment and defeat, The New York Graphic --the city's most renowned shock-based tabloid daily--has routinely rejected Virgil's work. But when Virgil and his friend Larry Onions rip off a local church, he gets the picture of a lifetime, a job at the Graphic , and a generous measure of trouble, leading to serious indiscretions that include (but aren't limited to): grave robbing, straining his neighbor's dog's feces for an inadvertently consumed diamond, widely circulating the work of a renowned "art terrorist," and being an FBI informant in a serial bombing case. Helping Virgil through his hard times is Marcy,...
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