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All Involved Ryan Gattis

All Involved By Ryan Gattis

All Involved by Ryan Gattis


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Summary

'All Involved is a symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It swallowed me whole.' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

All Involved Summary

All Involved by Ryan Gattis

The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: six days of looting, arson, assault and murder. America's second largest city in chaos. In All Involved, Ryan Gattis weaves a heart-stopping narrative from the perspectives of characters whose stories of the riots were never told. In six sections, each covering a single day, we follow the intersecting lives of seventeen people: gang members, firefighters, nurses, law enforcement officers and graffiti artists, every one changed for ever. Though the events of All Involved are fictional, every word is infused with authenticity and intimacy. A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as the television series The Wire, this is a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge and loyalty.

All Involved Reviews

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 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 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 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 All Involved is an astounding, vital novel. LA riots, 1992, brought to life with scorching intensity and empathy -- Matt Haig, author of THE HUMANS Full of brutality with flashes of tenderness, this is an adrenaline-fulled, roller-coaster ride of a novel. Hold on tight. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink The Bookseller 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

About Ryan Gattis

Ryan Gattis is the author of Kung Fu and All Involved, which won the American Library Association's Alex Award & the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. Gattis lives and writes in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the street art crew UGLARworks & a founding board member of 1888, a Southern California literary arts non-profit.

Additional information

GOR007123971
9781509805556
1509805559
All Involved by Ryan Gattis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20150521
384
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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