Charlie Campbell
Love Among The Chickens
Chicken: Love For Sale on the Streets of Hollywood
By David Henry Sterry
Canongate 213pp £9.99 order from our bookshop
Brining Down the House
By Ben Mezrich
William Heinemann 257pp £10 order from our bookshop
THE DARK SIDE of the American Dream has long been associated with Hollywood and Las Vegas. Writers have fallen over themselves to portray the evils gnawing away at America's soul, and these two books provide very different contemporary views.
David Henry Sterry's Chicken is the true account of his arrival in Hollywood as a wide-eyed seventeen-yearold 'tkeshmeat'. Getting away from his imploding family, he enrols in Immaculate Heart College. With nowhere to stay, he finds himself enticed back to a stranger's flat with the promise of food, before being
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