Rex Stories are the stories of occupants of the Manhattan-based Rex
Hotel. Among others, there's Ric the paranoid Cuban, who's beset
upon by a CIA-led infestation of cockroaches; Joey who aspires to
ski the slopes on white lines of cocaine; deluded Alex who preaches
life without illusions; and Luce who looks upon the Rex as "the
last refuge of the Real People." Whether or not true, Lawton makes
them seem real enough; moreover, surrounded by gentrification,
theirs is a reality they can't always bear. Thus readers should be
warned: Lawton doesn't offer us a cast of raffish Guys and Dolls,
Damon Runyon-type characters. The occupants of the Rex are much
more descendants of those who once frequented a Greenwich Village
saloon-rooming house nearly a century before, the same ones the
playwright Eugene O'Neil first introduced us to in the Iceman
Cometh.
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