Michael-David, a paranoid aging actor who has been ruined by fame in mainstream movies, is hired by a Scientologist to star in a rotten film about a trombone player and wolves. Fretting about the filming, he hides in an L.A. hotel from imagined adversaries shortly before the premiere. Michael-David goes deeper into his own head, believing that his curse is intensifying and he must live alone to avoid cursing others yet he links up with a sexy skateboarder who wants to mix up his dangerous chemicals in Michael-David’s room. Yet the actor finds Tim a refreshing change because he doesn’t acknowledge the actor’s fame.
The book focuses mainly on their time in the hotel and examines Michael-David’s attempts at trying to figure out Tim. Tim’s refusal to participate in sexual acts only arouses Michael-David more as he also imagines what is happening with his employer, Chris, and Chris’s wife, Diana.
Filled with dark yet witty dramatic scenes, the book details explorations of being lost in one’s own thoughts and seeking to find one’s true self by examining the actions of others, including a graphic erotic scene.
This is a valuable book for fiction collections.
Reviewer: s.n.
