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Rick Lawton
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There are many books about famous bands and rock stars out there,
but whatever happened to those musicians that did not become
famous? These are the experiences of drummer-singer George Garrett
and guitarist-singer Rick Lawton. They were on a crazy and
unpredictable U.S. road tour in 1978, but as they were buddies and
played in bands together in high school, their reminiscences go way
back. What started out as a simple e-mail memory exchange grew into
this book. If you have ever wondered what happened to all those
club bands and musicians you used to go out to see, listen, and
dance to (or even go out with) back in the 70s, read on. You might
get a clue from this book
Chasing Lazarus is a literary mystery which takes place against a
San Francisco background of blazing sun, pea-soup fogs, tony
restaurants, the Haight Street Disneyland, and dark, sinister SoMa
nightclubs. Harry Mach, a rapacious financial adviser, Judy Ferris,
an upright travel writer/journalist, and Marant Olivier, a deadly
assassin are all chasing Wiley Brooks. Wiley, a flame-haired CIA
interrogator and drug dealer ripped off backers in a drug scheme,
left a note about "business reversals," and jumped off the Golden
Gate Bridge. Harry, Judy, and Marant know Wiley faked his suicide,
but they have far different reasons for finding him. Chasing
Lazarus is a roller-coaster ride; read it and find out who gets
Wiley.
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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