ISBN: 0-88739-500-7
240 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Who Cooked Hot Dog Stahl?
Fran Yariv
In an age in which O.J's gloves, J.Lo's bottom, and Martha's finances grips households from coast to coast, this wildly comic parody arrives to open arms. Author Yariv leaves few issues unrankled: the zaniness of Hollywood, the pretensions of Po-Mo psychotherapy, the often childish inanity of academia. Fame, it seems, touches us all in the head, perhaps.
A Mulholland Drive car accident incinerates celluloid heartthrob Brian "Hot Dog" Stahl, but fellow star Adam LaSalle (a sort of youngish Robert Redford, say) survives. Suspicious circumstances land LaSalle in jail, as he had been vying with Hot Dog for the lead in Steven Spielberg's musical adaptation of Ulysses. The high-powered Los Angeles legal system activates, and delirious mayhem ensues. Will we ever find out the truth about Hot Dog Stahl? Well, there's only one way to find out.
Review: "Yariv's sharp eye and ironic wit skewer just about every aspect of pop culture in this funny, fast-paced satire about a movieland murder and its star struck witness. She has a gift for dialogue and a keen sense of the absurd."
-Carol Saline, author of Sisters, Mothers and Daughters and Best Friends "Yariv's keen satirical blade skewers celebrity lawyers, distinguished universities, and of course, the center of the action, Hollywood."
-BettyAnn Kevles, author of Naked to the Bone
Bio: FRAN YARIV lives with her husband in Pasadena. Her previous books include Leaving, The Hallowing, Last Exit and Safe Haven.
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