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Tony O'Neill |
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Sick City blurb: Two hapless drug addicts meet in rehab and concoct a get-rich-quick scheme that could only make sense to a couple of dope fiends. Their picaresque journey through LA has them bumping into a delightful plenty of grotesque characters: Dr. Mike, the Tony Robbins/Dr. Drew type Recovery Guru, whose self-help empire of luxury rehab centers, reality TV show, and best selling books could be tumbled by his secret obsession with Champagne, not the drink but a stunning transvestite; Trina, the stripper who has to give blow jobs for drugs because she's tapped her bank account for a "business expense" boob job; Spider, a former childhood sitcom star now stealing suitcases from the LAX carousels to see what he can pawn for drugs; Stevie Rox, the bloated movie mogul who orders (too loudly) the most expensive wines at Musso & Frank's; Rupert DeWald, the wealthy jingo writer who discreetly uses some of his wealth to acquire trinkets like Napoleon's penis for his "collection”; Pat, the sociopath dealer/killer who adds a delightfully dark tension, always lingering in the narrative's shadows, to an otherwise often blackly-humorous tale.
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| 14 Jan 2010 |
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Audio Recording
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In Chap-book
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Tony O’Neill reads an exclusive extract from Sick City, to be published in July this year by Harper Perennial. It’s the first chapter of the novel. The music in the background is an obscure Primal Scream track, Badlands.To listen, click the play button 
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