Paris Comes to L.A.

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 29, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

EVERYBODY SMOKES IN HELL

By John Ridley

Knopf. 236 pp. $23

Reviewed by Richard Lipez

It's not the standard disclaimer: "This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities between the miscreants in this story and the actual insipid degenerates who populate the city I hate more than cancer {are} purely coincidental. Anyone claiming to be represented in this novel is suffering from severe closet-psychosis ego issues which would best be dealt with immediately."

No time-waster, Ridley also serves up, even before the opening line -- "Hollywood was what the sign said" -- this epigraph, from a 1946 ...

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