**In an alternate Los Angeles, a young man uncovers a life-changing cinematic secret**
Hailed as one of Erickson’s finest and most daring novels, *Zeroville* is a unique love letter to film. It centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him “*cinéautistic*.” With an intensely religious childhood behind him, and tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his head, he arrives in Hollywood where he’s mistaken for a member of the Charles Manson “family” and eventually scores a job as a film editor. Vikar discovers the frames of a secret film within the reels of every movie ever made, and sets about splicing them together—an undertaking that takes on frightening theological dimensions. Electrifying and darkly comic, *Zeroville *dives into the renegade American cinema of the ’70s and ’80s and emerges into an era for which we have no name.
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**In an alternate Los Angeles, a young man uncovers a life-changing cinematic secret** Hailed as one of Erickson’s finest and most daring novels, *Zeroville* is a unique love letter to film. It centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him “*cinéautistic*.” With an intensely religious childhood behind him, and tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his head, he arrives in Hollywood where he’s mistaken for a member of the Charles Manson “family” and eventually scores a job as a film editor. Vikar discovers the frames of a secret film within the reels of every movie ever made, and sets about splicing them together—an undertaking that takes on frightening theological dimensions. Electrifying and darkly comic, *Zeroville *dives into the renegade American cinema of the ’70s and ’80s and emerges into an era for which we have no name.