Synopses & Reviews
“Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal….ONeill could be our generations Jim Thompson.”
— James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning
“Tony ONeill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels.”
— Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart
From Tony ONeill, the author of Down and Out on Murder Mile and coauthor of the Neon Angel and the New York Times bestselling Hero of the Underground, comes Sick City—a wild adventure of two junkies, Hollywood, and the Sharon Tate sex tape. Readers of Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) will take great delight in Sick City, “a disturbingly twisted ride through Hollywoods underbelly with a degenerate cast of colorfully interwoven characters” (Slash).
Review
“Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal....O’Neill could be our generation’s Jim Thompson.” James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning
Review
“Tony O’Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels.” Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart
Synopsis
Meet Jeffrey and Randal, two desperate junkies and your guides on this top-to-bottom fun-house tour of Hollywood's underbelly. From infamous crime scenes to celebrity treatment centers, Sick City is an outrageous page-turning adventure set in the sun-bleached wilds of LA.
Synopsis
Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal .O Neill could be our generation s Jim Thompson. James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning Tony O Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels. Barry Gifford, author of Wild at HeartFrom Tony O Neill, the author of Down and Out on Murder Mile and coauthor of the Neon Angel and the New York Times bestselling Hero of the Underground, comes Sick City a wild adventure of two junkies, Hollywood, and the Sharon Tate sex tape. Readers of Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) will take great delight in Sick City, a disturbingly twisted ride through Hollywood s underbelly with a degenerate cast of colorfully interwoven characters (Slash)."
Synopsis
"
Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal....O'Neill could be our generation's Jim Thompson."
-- James Frey, author of
Bright Shiny Morning
"Tony O'Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels."
-- Barry Gifford, author of
Wild at Heart
From Tony O'Neill, the author of
Down and Out on Murder Mile and coauthor of the
Neon Angel and the
New York Times bestselling
Hero of the Underground, comes
Sick City--a wild adventure of two junkies, Hollywood, and the Sharon Tate sex tape. Readers of Elmore Leonard (
Get Shorty) and Irvine Welsh (
Trainspotting) will take great delight in
Sick City, "a disturbingly twisted ride through Hollywood's underbelly with a degenerate cast of colorfully interwoven characters" (Slash).
About the Author
Before becoming a writer, Tony O’Neill started off as a noted rock musician. Fresh out of public school, he blew off an enrollment interview at a university in order to audition for a band. His musical career lasted through the Marc Almond Band, Kenickie, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre before getting derailed by his addiction to heroin and crack.
The book, Digging the Vein, was published by Contemporary Press. He has since published two other books, Seizure Wet Dreams: Short Stories (Social Disease Press), and Songs From the Shooting Gallery: Poems (Burning Shore Press).
While all three books were published quietly by ultra-independent presses, Tony has been rapidly gaining attention as a young writer of rising notice.
Tony now lives in New York City, where he reads regularly at the KGB Bar in the East Village and other reading series throughout the five boroughs. Tony recently returned from The Hague, where the Crossing Borders Festival honored him as a guest writer. Past Crossing Borders honorees include Douglas Coupland, Alain de Botton, and Dave Eggers.
The August 2007 issue of Esquire (UK edition) classified Digging the Vein as the “IT” book of the decade. The article placed it in the company of On the Road, their designated “IT” book of the 1950s, followed by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Less Than Zero, and Trainspotting.