The Ticket Out - Hardcover

Knode, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151001847 ISBN 13: 9780151001842

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

Her unfulfilling job as a movie critic for a counterculture periodical violently interrupted when a young film student is murdered, Ann Whitehead fights with a disgraced LAPD detective over her coverage of the investigation and discovers a link between the victim and her missing script. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"An astonishingly muscular, poetic, nerve-cauterized literary debut.
Helen Knode is a thoroughbred provocateuse." -- Bruce Wagner, author of I'm Losing You

"Helen Knode is so canny about noir atmospherics and gestures that her still more cunning emotional refinements slip up on you like a silent stalker down one of the secret tunnels that underpin her coruscating vision of Hollywood past, Hollywood future. Ann Whitehead is a sly, challenging, and ultimately dazzling creation. As a wounded and damaged daughter turned bored and sardonic LA film critic, Whitehead comes to discover how little she knows about the movies, or her own desires. Elegiac and electrifying, The Ticket Out is her -- and our -- education, and a shrewd, troubling book." -- Robert Polito
|"An astonishingly muscular, poetic, nerve-cauterized literary debut.
Helen Knode is a thoroughbred provocateuse." -- Bruce Wagner, author of I'm Losing You

"Helen Knode is so canny about noir atmospherics and gestures that her still more cunning emotional refinements slip up on you like a silent stalker down one of the secret tunnels that underpin her coruscating vision of Hollywood past, Hollywood future. Ann Whitehead is a sly, challenging, and ultimately dazzling creation. As a wounded and damaged daughter turned bored and sardonic LA film critic, Whitehead comes to discover how little she knows about the movies, or her own desires. Elegiac and electrifying, The Ticket Out is her -- and our -- education, and a shrewd, troubling book." -- Robert Polito

About the Author:

Helen Knode was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1957. She worked as a film critic and columnist for the L.A. Weekly from 1985 to 1991. She now lives in Northern California with her husband, bestselling author James Ellroy. This is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0151001847
• ISBN 13: 9780151001842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304