The Death Of Frank Sinatra
''The Death of Frank Sinatra'' is a 1996 novel by Michael Ventura. Plot Mike Rose is a Las Vegas private eye. His schizophrenia, schizophrenic brother Alvi is released from the mental hospital and mouths off to Zig, a gangster who long ago killed Rose's father and slept with his mother. Plus a devilish client wants Rose to murder her husband. References

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Michael Ventura
Michael Ventura (born October 31, 1945) is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, essayist and cultural critic. History Michael Ventura commenced his career as a journalist at the ''Austin Sun'', a counter-culture bi-weekly newspaper that published in the 1970s. Ventura is best known for his long-running column, "Letters at 3 A.M.", which first appeared in ''LA Weekly'' in the early 1980s and continued in the '' Austin Chronicle'' until 2015. He has published three novels: '' Night Time Losing Time'' (1989), '' The Zoo Where You're Fed to God'' (1994), and '' The Death of Frank Sinatra'' (1996). An excerpt from his novel about Miriam of Magdala was published in the third issue of the CalArts literary journal ''Black Clock'' in 2005. He is the author of two essay collections, '' Shadow-Dancing in the U.S.A.'' (1985) and '' Letters at 3 A.M.: Reports on Endarkenment'' (1994). With psychologist James Hillman, Ventura co-authored the 1992 bestseller '' We've Had a H ...
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