Starlite Terrace

Dark stories of failed dreams and contemporary desperation in Los Angeles. In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building—the titular Starlite Terrace—Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of Rex, Moss, Gary, and June, four neighbors, in a sort of burlesque of the Hollywood modern. In each of their singular collisions with fame, Roth’s dark prose presages a universal and mythical fate of desperation.   In “The Man at Noah’s Window,� Rex shares the story of his father, a supposed hand double for Gary Cooper in High Noon. In “Eclipse of the Sun,� Moss, who lives in fear of the next holocaust, awaits a visit from the long-lost daughter he has tracked down. In “Rider on the Storm,� Gary, a rock drummer and born-again Christian, who “almost played� on the Turtles’ 60s-hit “Happy Together,� strives to find an escape from his personal guilt. And in “The Woman in the Sea of Stars,� June, a former Hollywood studio secretary whose husband once cheated on her with Marilyn Monroe, makes the best of a disconnected life until she emerges reborn through ashes strewn in the illuminated swimming pool of the Starlite Terrace.   In each of these four tales of wannabes and almost-weres, Roth's L.A. portraits unfold in rare style, and, in Krishna Winston’s masterful translation, the hopeless, loveless perversion of an Ed Ruscha-inspired California becomes a compelling pageant of all-American grotesques that is not to be missed.  

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2023
First published:	2012
Authors:	Patrick Roth • Krishna Winston
Dimensions:	1mm (H)
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-80309-211-9
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-80309-211-4
Barcode:	9781803092119

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