Starlite Terrace (The Seagull Library of German Literature) - Softcover

Starlite Terrace

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Buchbeschreibung Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dark stories of failed dreams and contemporary desperation in Los Angeles. In a rundown Los Angeles apartment buildingâ ¿the titular Starlite Terraceâ ¿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, Rothâ ¿s dark prose presages a universal and mythical fate of desperation. Â In â The Man at Noahâ ¿s Window,â Rex shares the story of his father, a supposed hand double for Gary Cooper in High Noon. In â Eclipse of the Sun,â Moss, who lives in fear of the next holocaust, awaits a visit from the long-lost daughter he has tracked down. In â Rider on the Storm,â Gary, a rock drummer and born-again Christian, who â almost playedâ on the Turtlesâ ¿ 60s-hit â Happy Together,â strives to find an escape from his personal guilt. And in â The Woman in the Sea of Stars,â 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. Â In each of these four tales of wannabes and almost-weres, Roth's L.A. portraits unfold in rare style, and, in Krishna Winstonâ ¿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. Â. Artikel-Nr. 9781803092119

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