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 |
| Firstpublished: |
2012 |
| Authors: |
Patrick Roth
• Krishna Winston
|
| Dimensions: |
1mm (H) |
| Pages: |
184 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80309-211-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-80309-211-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781803092119 |
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