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Back pain manifests itself in many different forms, attacks without
warning, and damages its victims' physical and emotional health.
Everyone suggests a different cure for the effects of a weak core:
surgeons want to cut, chiropractors want to adjust, physical
therapists want to perform physical therapy. In The End of Back
Pain, neurosurgeon Partick Roth, M.D., reveals that, more often
than not, back pain is caused by a set of underdeveloped core
muscles that control the stability and alignment of the spine that
are not being used. He details a specialized exercise program to
strengthen and develop those muscles to relieve, control, and even
prevent chronic pain. The End of Back Pain helps patients view the
body from a totally different perspective, and inspires readers to
push their bodies in order to cure its maladies. After years of
treating back pain, Dr. Roth has seen time and time again that a
back that is not used to its full capacity is a back that is
unhealthy. When we don't use our backs, we are not utilizing the
core set of muscles designed to help us stay strong, increase
stamina, and look our very best.
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Starlite Terrace
Patrick Roth, Krishna Winston
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R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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