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All Involved
- Author
- Ryan Gattis
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 21 May 2015
- Run Time
- 11 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
For six days, Los Angeles is a city ablaze.
For six days, seventeen people are caught in the chaos.
For six days, Los Angeles shows the world what happens when laws are no longer enforceable.
Ernesto Vera is walking home from his job at a taco truck when three guys jump out of a car and assault him. Ernesto's not in a gang, he's not involved, but his sister is - and when Payasa hears that her innocent brother has been murdered, she wants revenge. As widespread rioting breaks out across the city, Ernesto's death triggers an astonishing sequence of events, not just for the gangs involved, but for the firefighters, nurses and law enforcement who must deal with the consequences.
In April 1992, after one of the most notorious, racially charged trials in American history, the city of L.A. exploded in violence. All Involved tells the interconnected stories of seventeen characters over six life-changing days, and transforms the truly extraordinary story of the L.A. riots into a vivid, electrifying and addictive work of fiction.
Critics Review
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All Involved is a symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn't judge. It swallowed me whole.
David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS
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Do not resist All Involved. It's the most compelling, moving, shocking and world-expanding novel you'll read all year; it sucks you in, then spits you out, permanently changed. I loved it with a frankly scary evangelical zeal.
Charlotte Mendelson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author of WHEN WE WERE BAD and ALMOST ENGLISH
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All Involved is a monumental achievement. Ryan Gattis takes the reader into the broken, outraged heart of Los Angeles during the `92 riots and doesn't blink once at what he finds there.
Dennis Lehane, author of SHUTTER ISLAND
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Corrosive, timely, vividly realized scenes of urban warfare and thwarted dreams by a writer who clearly knows his subject: the netherworld of Los Angeles in the early 1990's.
Joyce Carol Oates, author of THEM and BLONDE
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All Involved is an astounding, vital novel. LA riots, 1992, brought to life with scorching intensity and empathy
Matt Haig, author of THE HUMANS
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Full of brutality with flashes of tenderness, this is an adrenaline-fulled, roller-coaster ride of a novel. Hold on tight.
The Bookseller
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All Involved is a high-octane, polyphonic narrative that hit me with the force of a nuclear strike. It is a scorching, bowl-along book with fierce integrity and I heartily recommend it to all who like compelling committed fiction
Patrick McCabe, author of THE BUTCHER BOY
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Shocking, visceral and humane, All Involved is a perfectly-paced, heart-breaking portrait of a city tearing itself apart. Gattis has created characters who live on in the imagination long after you have read the final page.
Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
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A tour de force . . . without glamorising his subject, there's a lyricism in the vernacular and street language that makes it hard not to be moved . . . a powerful work of fiction
GQ
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Details
- Author
- Ryan Gattis
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 11 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 May 2015
- ISBN
- 9781509808786
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Street fiction / urban fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
Synopsis
For six days, Los Angeles is a city ablaze.For six days, seventeen people are caught in the chaos.For six days, Los Angeles shows the world what happens when laws are no longer enforceable.Ernesto Vera is walking home from his job at a taco truck when three guys jump out of a car and assault him. Ernesto's not in a gang, he's not involved, but his sister is - and when Payasa hears that her innocent brother has been murdered, she wants revenge. As widespread rioting breaks out across the city, Ernesto's death triggers an astonishing sequence of events, not just for the gangs involved, but for the firefighters, nurses and law enforcement who must deal with the consequences.In April 1992, after one of the most notorious, racially charged trials in American history, the city of L.A. exploded in violence. All Involved tells the interconnected stories of seventeen characters over six life-changing days, and transforms the truly extraordinary story of the L.A. riots into a vivid, electrifying and addictive work of fiction.
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