{"product_id":"eddie-the-king-stories-of-las-skid-row-9798218775186","title":"Eddie the KIng Stories of LA's Skid Row","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSkid Row\u003c\/strong\u003e is not what you think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the headlines and statistics are the people: fighters, drifters, schemers, and survivors-each with a story worth telling. In Eddie the KIng, \u003cstrong\u003eMichael W. Corcoran\u003c\/strong\u003e, who spent nearly twenty years at the Baltimore Hotel in the heart of Skid Row, brings those stories to life with grit, dark humor, and startling tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the eye of a bartender and the heart of an deacon, Corcoran blends grit, pathos, and absurd comedy into portraits that feel both larger-than-life and painfully human. More than a book about Skid Row, this is a meditation on resilience, survival, and what it means to call even the most broken places home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are haunted hotel rooms that whisper their legends, a one-legged war hero who drinks like it's still 1945, a porn actor turned hotel desk clerk spinning outrageous tales, and countless others who walked the blurred line between tragedy and comedy. Together, they form a mosaic of resilience in a place most people only cross the street to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part street chronicle, Eddie the KIng captures a world that is vanishing even as it endures. It is a book about time, about the people we lose and the ones we never forget, and about finding a strange sense of home in the least likely of places-this book doesn't just tell you. It takes you there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sorcerer Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218775186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Michael W. Corcoran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750187626677,"sku":"9798218775186","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eddie-the-king-stories-of-las-skid-row-9798218775186","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}