CRITICISM – The writer takes up certain characters from his previous novels, gives them a past and recapitulates an entire era. That of the rowdy Big Apple of the “seventies”.
This shows his naivety. In 1976, Paul Schwartzman, nicknamed Pablo, dreamed of writing a screenplay about Cicero. In the meantime, he writes porn film reviews for an obscure magazine. You have to remember. New York was in ruins. People were being attacked on every street corner. “The city was a sublime, profane and rowdy cripple.” The danger was there, the excitement too.
There were cinemas everywhere. Punk clubs were springing up like mushrooms after the rain. In a stand-up club, Pablo runs into his childhood friend, Jay Gladstone, from a much wealthier background (dad is in real estate). Together, they decide to produce a blaxploitation film, a trendy genre: in the near future, a virus has eliminated all white people, except one. Pablo will be in charge of the script. Jay will find the funds. Things won’t be that simple.
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Seth Greenland takes certain characters from his previous novels, giving them a past. In the pages are summarized the comedian Frank Bones, a…
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