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In Venice, California, the sun always shines, but that's not much help if you're a homeless drunk like James Murphy, a man with a past of shattered dreams and empty bottles. Murphy's life in the gutter was bad enough, but now bad gets worse. Murphy has one week to solve a cold-case murder that has police detectives stumped, or else his best friend dies. Inspired by Chandler, Steinbeck, and Quentin Tarantino, THE LONG DRUNK is a darkly comic crime/detective saga filled with sex, violence, booze, and plenty of foul street talk. Hard-boiled, heartbreaking, and gritty as hell, it thoroughly immerses the reader in the squalid yet resourceful underworld of the down-and-out. By juxtaposing the cruel realities of life on the street with the obscene wealth of the Hollywood elite, Eric Coyote creates an ultra noir masterpiece for the ages. THE LONG DRUNK, named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012, will leave you cringing, laughing, and begging for more.
- Sales Rank: #600925 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-11-22
- Released on: 2011-11-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"An unshakable noir with a protagonist learning along the way, but beyond the more overt genre traits is a rewarding story of a man's unconditional love for his faithful companion." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), named "Best of 2012."
"An insanely great foul-mouthed drunken Raymond Chandler staggers through the cesspools of Venice Beach." -- Walt Morton, author of American Ghoul
"The Long Drunk punches you in the gut, drops you to your knees, and pisses in your face. It's a damn fine book filled with dipshits, dipsomania--and lest we forget, dogs. You can't help but love every filthy page." -- Stephen P. Lindsey, screenwriter of Hachi: A Dog's Tale
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
An intriguing window on Life in Venice Beach, CA
By Raghu Nathan
The trailer promoting the book calls it an 'ultra noir' murder mystery. Thanks to Google, I found out that I had already read an ultra noir novel (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) without knowing what the genre means. Compared with the Swedish mystery, 'The Long Drunk' feels a lot more 'noir', especially with the choice of its many homeless characters and the no-holds-barred, irreverent commentary on life in Venice Beach, California.
The novel is about James Murphy, a homeless guy in Venice, who suffers the misfortune of his beloved dog Betty being run over by an SUV and being badly maimed. Murphy takes the dog to Dr.Walters who tells him the still further bad news that Betty also suffers from acute Lymphoma and needs chemotherapy which would all end up costing Murphy some 15000 dollars. Murphy's love for his dog sets him on a course to find $15000 in one week. The rest of the story takes us through Murphy's attempts to get the $25000 prize money for solving the murder of a wannabe actor named Alan Tanner. Even though the story in part 1 ends rather sadly, since the author has billed this book as the first of his trilogy on the 'homeless detective', there is going be more to it than this.
The thing that appealed to me most in the book is the window it gave me on the life of the homeless in Venice. Not ever having been to LA to visit and never having had an opportunity to interact with the homeless in the US, I found the graphic descriptions of their lives, their street language and their drunken pre-occupations quite humorous, poignant and insightful. Coyote writes about them with much compassion and humor and is unsparing about the disparities of life in Venice between its genteel-half and that of the homeless. You laugh out loud as you read about the homeless finding discarded Hollywood screenplays in the garbage where they forage for food. There is a liberal sprinkling of vomit, urine, feces, blood as well as wine, vodka, yoga, art and sex in the book. I suppose that is what makes it noir.
The murder mystery part of the book failed to grab my attention that much. Murphy tries to set out on the case a la Raymond Chandler, but the various clues and his attempts at detective work fell short of grabbing my deep interest. I wish the author had put in more work on this aspect of the novel. Also, during these forays, the homeless Murphy ends up seamlessly blending with the genteel side of Venice - in art galleries, with yoga-teaching blondes and wannabe actors in Hollywood. He even ends up having sex with Jocelyn, a lovely actress in training, as well as from the sexy yoga instructor. Though the narration of all this is graphic and entertaining and direct, it stretched my credibility and made me feel that the good work done by the author in portraying 'Venice as it is' has been compromised somewhat.
The book is an easy and entertaining read and I am glad to have read a book in this genre. However, it does not do enough to make you that much intrigued to look forward to finding out what happens to James Murphy in the rest of the trilogy.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Venice Misadventure
By Sir Charles Panther
Disclosure: author Coyote contacted me and offered a copy of his book if I would review it. I accepted and promised a fair and honest review in return, and received a photocopy. Thank you for being patient, Mr. Coyote; just as I got into the book, we had to put our dog down, and didn't really want to finish this until just recently (we pick up Gurney on Thursday).
I actually enjoyed this book, until the last three pages. Then it quite disappointingly fell apart, kind of.
Synopsis: Homeless alcoholic and ex-pro football player Murphy lives on the streets of Venice, CA with his dog, Betty, and his colorful homeless crew. Betty gets hit by a car and Murphy needs a ton of money fast to save her, and the only way is to solve a local murder for the reward money. Gritty L. A. action, adventure and drama follow.
I liked this book, and had it set for a solid four stars, right up to the end. Then it just sort of ended. I don't want to give it away, but of the two interwoven stories you're following, one just evaporates. It's moving right along, crests, takes a very nice and realistic twist, gets some new legs and direction, and then just ends, with no resolution. The other story resolves more or less fully, epilogue and all.
This really bothered me, but thinking on it some more, it's clear from the very solid writing that Coyote is no hack, that he has thought through a complete story, but it's not quite what you think, and not what you're waiting for at the end. It's not a tease, not a trick, but easily could be taken as such. This is a story of Murphy's Sisyphean journey, and the tidy resolution of questions of the supporting stories, while aggravating, isn't the point. I get it, I think.
Coyote knows a lot about Venice, and living on the street. Me, I have no familiarity with either, but he had me believing. He also knows about art, yoga, alcoholic beverages, and quite a few other things, as the nicely detailed prose reveals. There's even an important new theory on alcoholism: "a useful mutation essential to the survival of the human race, a marker that allows men of courage to expand the boundaries of the world and discovers avenues of insight . . ." Interesting. The action and dialog were consistently realistic. His geography seems to be spot-on, given a couple of cursory Google Maps checks.
Coyote's situations and characters and plot development all pass the credibility test, which is a big one for me. There is only one part that pushed the credibility envelope, near the end when 50-odd homeless folks have an epic party in a millionaire's mansion, and nothing comes of it. This is after the opening pages show the cops unjustly rousting homeless people. The idea of the party was good, and fit perfectly in the story, but as things developed I found it very hard that the neighbors either didn't notice or decided to take no action on the out of control, destructive, drunken invasion.
I was extremely happy to see that the book was largely full of editorial errors; it's actually been edited and proofread by a professional--huzzah! The story is an adult one, with plenty of salty language, some graphic sex, and frequent use of ethnic and racial slurs. Coyote even uses "santorum" in its newly coined context--ha! There's a short bit about an ugly run-in with some drunken, aggressive, abusive and apparently Australian rugby players. Having been a rugger for 32 years now I have to say I didn't like the characterization; in the 2nd edition they can be lacrosse players.
The book reads quickly, and at 236 pages doesn't take long. It really does read like a book adapted from a screenplay, or maybe this book is a treatment for a screenplay (that would be keeping with one of the recurring jokes in the book). There are no major existential or philosophical issues to deal with, no egregious use of the thesaurus, nothing that complicated. The story gets up and moves in a very linear fashion towards its misdirective conclusion.
Bottom line: This is a fun and interesting story, set in a novel environment. It has surprising depth of development, but readers expecting tidy resolutions to all of the issues and questions of the book will be disappointed--keep this in mind reading it, and I think you'll be approaching what Coyote wants you to get out of it. On page 104, one of the characters says "Dogs transcend." Amen, brother, Rainbow Bridge and everything. Amen.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Modern Noir Meets Bukowski
By RW High
In "The Long Drunk," modern noir meets Bukowski...but it's better than "Pulp," Bukowski's own attempt at noir. This is a gritty, hardscrabble story of a football pro-turned-homeless guy who tries to put aside his drunkenness to (or use it to the advantage of) solving a murder. Though his ulterior motives are surprising and almost too unbelievably exaggerated, it serves well as the catalyst that starts and finishes the piece. Murph - the protagonist - makes a great "long drunk" speech at the end of the book that clinches his character. He's the perfect protagonist with that pleasant mix of good boy, bad boy that hooks us but lets us sympathize with and root for him. You'll see what I mean when you read it.
Which, if you have a Kindle and some time and a little taste for the gritty side of the City of Angels, then you should.
"The Long Drunk" is a good debut novel - I stumbled upon an advert for it in the LA Weekly and took a chance, seeing as it was an affordable, instant buy. Coyote's story shows a lot of promise and really draws me into the Venice/homeless community more than anything else. He had some uncompromising dialogue, scenarios, and no-nonsense, and parts of the story definitely gripped me. Because some parts of the story were so realistically gritty and uncompromising, it make the "forced/fake" portions that much more difficult to swallow. Parts seemed forced, fake, or overexaggerated. There was a lot of repetitious description of the protagonist's pre-homeless backstory as a college/NFL superstar who met an untimely career termination and ended up on the streets. I will definitely give the author a sophomore try, looking for him to smooth dialogue, cut descriptions, and not ultimately backfire on the grizzled realism he's trying so earnestly to portray.
The thing about the noir genre is, it's kind of unbelievable in that almost-real-but-not-quite that grips us, sells us, teaches us, and leaves us wanting more. It's kind of the epitome of noir, and it's nice to get some modern stuff that's not afraid to cuss and spit and give us a radical ending but still redeem itself in those secretly heartwarming nuances, those strokes of brilliant dialogue, and that spark of universal humanity. Even from the streets.
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