What happens to a young Sicilian immigrant origins in the 50s who decides to leave New York City and groped his fortune in Hollywood? To tell us about Rudy Paradiso, born in 1925, whose true identity and age you can feed more than a few questions, but no matter.
Who attends this web space can easily be argued that the story is set in Los Angeles and very little or nothing in the Big Apple, but the link with the city, the continued references, provenance of the author-protagonist, the recurring references to New York (also referred to the book by John Dos Passos, see here ) make Paradise Boulevard a novel metanewyorchese "jokes are effective on cities, such as when the protagonist's father recalled that "I arrived by ship, I saw the Statue of Liberty and thought wonder: These Americans are so rich that the works of art, not keep them in the village square, but in the sea ".
The story of Rudy, who earn a living as a translator-guide for the bride and groom immigrants, is the story of a young quarrelsome, insolent, brash, brilliant teller of stories and anecdotes, and then bound to succeed as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He lives with his girlfriend, Joyce, also a writer, educated but without talent, who earns his salary as a cloakroom. Among
fistfights with Frank Sinatra, guilty of teasing - he just - The Italians, and chat with John Wayne in a prey to the fumes of alcohol, Rudy grasp the opportunities that manufacturers provide. But everything has a price and the bill presents McCarthyism, the witch hunt against alleged communists and those that devastated the world's cultural year 50.
To survive we must betray all, friends, ideals, and unconventional love Rudy will have to make difficult decisions.
The New York point of view comes and goes throughout the narrative and features: "I admired the red-hot banana trees along the road and I enjoyed the sight of the western sky, moving and immense, thinking with relief as the cold was far New York .
Rudy, the Italian-American Rudy, you'll soon see how they are different from those of New York "California in Sicily": "A New York worked hard to feel up to the Americans in Los Angeles best picture, cultivating lotus diversity ... Italians on the West Coast were so, they took the Americans' delusions of grandeur. "
Writing Heaven sent flowing, dry, half way between the hard-boiled Mickey Spillane and John Fante and creative despair among lobbyists, femmes fatales, bartenders, spies, sycophants and Hollywood moguls three hundred pages to slip away a nice finish.
Paradise Boulevard, Rudy Paradiso, Lindau, 2010 
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