Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Patrick Roth

Traducido por

Krishna Winston

Editorial

Seagull Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

184

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1x12.7x1.3 cm

Peso

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781803092119

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

Starlite Terrace (en Inglés)

Patrick Roth (Autor) · Krishna Winston (Traducido por) · Seagull Books · Tapa Blanda

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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.