{"product_id":"queer-people","title":"Queer People by CARROLL AND GARRETT GRAHAM","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe accidental antihero of \u003ci\u003eQueer People\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel Budd Schulberg called \"if not \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003eHollywood novel\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eat least a truly seminal work on Hollywood,\" Theodore Anthony White, or \"Whitey,\" a transplanted Chicago reporter of the Hecht-MacArthur sort, finds himself broke and without prospects in early 30s Hollywood, fumbling upwards through an improvised society of opportunistic \"actors, authors, artists, acrobats and astrologers, coon-shouters, chorus girls, confidence men, comedians, camera-crankers, Christian Scientists, and call-houses, directors, gagmen, song writers, sadists, psalm singers, soothsayers, and sycophants, press agents, pugilists, policemen, perverts, pickpockets, panhandlers, pimps, playwrights, prostitutes, and parsons and playgirls (both unfrocked), bootleggers, bandits, bookmakers and Babbitts, remittance men, radio announcers and realators, Jews, Gentiles, Mohammedans and Rosicrucians, all living like Mormons, manicurists, mannikins, misanthropes, misogynists and masochists, women of all sexes and men of none\" — the queer people of the title — and along the way, Whitey discovers in Hollywood what his fish-out-of-water counterparts of \u003ci\u003eThe Day of the Locust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes Sammy Run? \u003c\/i\u003enever could: a very good time. Back in print almost a hundred years since its publication in 1930, Carroll and Garrett Graham's epochal classic remains one of the most lunatic yet clear-eyed works of Hollywood fiction ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eBook 004 in our collection features introductions by Peter Bart and Budd Schulberg, an extended essay by Justin Gautreau, and a series of articles and illustrations by the authors of the novel that have not been published since their first appearance in the 1920s.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTITLE: Queer People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSUBTITLE: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR: Carroll and Garrett Graham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLANGUAGE: English \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORMAT: Paperback \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIZE: 6 in. x 9 in. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePAGES: 380 + cover\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Felix Farmer Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51646711398456,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/4395\/5256\/files\/QP-Cover.jpg?v=1781236536","url":"https:\/\/felixfarmerproductions.com\/products\/queer-people","provider":"Felix Farmer Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}