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GENTRIFICATION ON THE BLOCK,A SHOWMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE,ETHICS GONE. THIS IS THE 1980S. Mark starts out in suburban New Jersey, wherehousing developments and shopping malls providecover for medical scams, divorces and abortions. He moves on to film-biz-saturated Los Angeles,harboring Afghan freedom fighters and damagedsurvivors of Hollywood's entertainment-makingmachine. B...
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50,64 DKK
Forlag
Unbound Digital
Udgivet
23 januar 2020
Længde
192 sider
Genrer
1DDF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781789650723
GENTRIFICATION ON THE BLOCK,A SHOWMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE,ETHICS GONE. THIS IS THE 1980S. Mark starts out in suburban New Jersey, wherehousing developments and shopping malls providecover for medical scams, divorces and abortions. He moves on to film-biz-saturated Los Angeles,harboring Afghan freedom fighters and damagedsurvivors of Hollywood's entertainment-makingmachine. Back east in rapidly gentrifying New YorkCity, he falls in with art snobs, literary luminariesand real estate operators, all making the mostof trickle-down economics. Law school and extreme anxiety are on the horizon,followed by a foray into France and encounterswith Eastern religion, an early wave of terrorismand the burgeoning right wing movementthat is its corollary. Everyone is looking for anything but what they already have. Mark is no exception.