Virtual Velocity
An L.A. Story
by Anthony Mora
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Pub Date 14 Nov 2019 | Archive Date 27 Nov 2024
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Description
“Think Lolita meets Holden Caulfield.” –The Huffington Post
“Drawing upon his background as a rock-music journalist… Anthony Mora offers a world-premiere glimpse behind the scenes… engaging.” –Backstage
Virtual Velocity is the story of the curious creation of pop phenomena, Jake Jenkins, America’s most renowned and successful literary novelist. Spanning six decades, through three interconnected stories, Virtual Velocity follows Jake from a sixteen-year-old learning about literature and women, to frenetic rock journalist, to struggling literary novelist, to world-famous author. Journeying through LA’s rock and literary worlds, it is also an homage to the city, tracking its internal and external changing landscape and its cultural shape shifting.
Virtual Velocity explores the complicated and often mystifying intersection between fame and art.
Advance Praise
“Think Lolita meets Holden Caulfield.” –The Huffington Post
“A blend of Nabokov and Bret Easton Ellis… Arresting… a refreshing unpredictability of what will happen from one moment to next.” –L.A. Weekly
“Drawing upon his background as a rock-music journalist… Anthony Mora offers a world-premiere glimpse behind the scenes… engaging.” –Backstage
“A dramedy with passion, revelation and surprise.” –Los Angeles Journal
[Anthony’s] characters grapple with the realities of a timeless yet somehow post-apocalyptic Southern California, complete with cults, gurus, guns, human frailty and the dangers inherent in connection.” –Entertainment Today
“It hits the mark.” –Preview West
“Reminiscent [of] David Mamet or Harold Pinter.” –Metro L.A.
“Poised to place his indelible stamp on Los Angeles… Mora joins a canon which includes Fante and Chandler” –In Hollywood Magazine
