All Involved - A Novel

At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itself--laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Gattis
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780062378804
• ISBN: 978-0-06-237880-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Crime, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION