In a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994.
Hailed by The Guardian as "one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche," and by The Observer as "one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last thirty years," he is also the author of a recent memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love..
About the Author: Gary Indiana is a novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, filmmaker, and artist.
Studded throughout with scathing satirical portraits of media figures, other writers, and the Martinez trial teams, Resentment captures an era that seems, two decades later, at once grotesque, familiar, and a precursor to our own.
Still reeling from the end of his obsessive courtship of a young So Ho artist/waiter, Seth moves between a room at the Chateau Marmont and a Mount Washington shack owned by his old cab-driving, ex-Marxist friend, Jack, while he writes a profile of Teddy Wade--one of the era\'s hottest young actors, who has "dared" to star as a gay character in a new Hollywood film.
In Resentment, Seth, a New York-based writer arrives in Los Angeles (where he has history and friends) in mid-August, 1994, to observe what will become the marathon parricide trial of the wealthy, athletic, and troubled Martinez brothers, broadcast live every day on Court TV.
Originally published in 1997, Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana\'s now-classic trilogy (followed in 1999 by Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and in 2003 by Depraved Indifference) chronicling the more-or-less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium\'s end.
In a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994
