A Bright and Guilty Place by Richard Rayner

A Bright and Guilty Place by Richard Rayner

Best Book of the Year
The Los Angeles Times - The Washington Post

Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.'s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.

Richard Rayner is the author of several books, including the novel The Cloud Sketcher and The Blue Suit, a memoir of his own life as a thief while a student at Cambridge University. His work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780385509701
ISBN 10	0385509707
Title	A Bright and Guilty Place
Author	Richard Rayner
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2009-06-23
Number of pages	267
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