A young man who loves grindhouse movies, and is living in New York just at the bad old end of the 42nd Street era, finds b-movie life bleeding into real life when a young woman dies next to him in a theater in Ed Kurtz's The Forty-Two.
This leads him into an even seamier world full of gangsters, sex workers, adult filmmakers, and ultimately a deadly collection of films everyone is trying to either find or hide, culminating in an especially violent denouement.
Kurtz writes very sure-handedly about the grimy world he depicts, the dirty and dangerous landscape of early 80s New York City. Bonus points for including a character clearly based on cult film director Andy Milligan, one of my faves.
Recommended for those interested in very gritty noir, or the grindhouse movie era in New York, or both.
I read this on my beloved Kindle by recommendation of another crime author.
This leads him into an even seamier world full of gangsters, sex workers, adult filmmakers, and ultimately a deadly collection of films everyone is trying to either find or hide, culminating in an especially violent denouement.
Kurtz writes very sure-handedly about the grimy world he depicts, the dirty and dangerous landscape of early 80s New York City. Bonus points for including a character clearly based on cult film director Andy Milligan, one of my faves.
Recommended for those interested in very gritty noir, or the grindhouse movie era in New York, or both.
I read this on my beloved Kindle by recommendation of another crime author.
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