{"product_id":"eddie-the-king-stories-of-las-skid-row-paperback","title":"Eddie the KIng Stories of LA's Skid Row - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael W. Corcoran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46593023541445,"sku":"9798218775186","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/RJplI1NRqN9798218775186.webp?v=1785067724","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/eddie-the-king-stories-of-las-skid-row-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}