Starlite Terrace - Couverture rigide

Roth M.D., Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857420828 ISBN 13 : 9780857420824

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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' 1960s hit "Happy Together," strives to find 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 Edward Ruscha - inspired California becomes a compelling pageant of all-American grotesques that is not to be missed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patrick Roth has been working as a Los Angeles - based film journalist and author for three decades. Krishna Winston, professor and chair of the German Studies Department at Wesleyan University, is the principal English-language translator of the works of the Nobel Prize - winning German author Gunter Grass. She also translated Peter Handke's Don Juan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857420828
• ISBN 13: 9780857420824
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible