Zeroville

It's a surreal novel as we follow Vikar who sports a the tattoo of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his shaven head. The book is a bonanza for old moviephiles, it's so entrenched in the Hollywood of the early 70's. I barely managed to eke out the references to Taxi Driver and Blade Runner.

But all these references are signifiers. That individual scenes play to a larger theme. And the book still managed to pull me through this fever dream of a story that somehow evokes the idea of film before tentpole summer blockbusters and special effects eye candy. I don't know what I just read, but despite my ignorance it managed to stick with me.