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Signal Hill / stories by Alan Rifkin.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.I3935 S54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rifkin, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Men--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights, [2003]
- Summary:
- Five stories track boys and men as they navigate among the ghosts and mirages of greater Los Angeles. Rifkin's male protagonists are part fuck-up, part primal force, and full of longing -- for fathers, for mothers, for sex, for faith, for just getting it right.
- A one-time actor staggers toward his demise and clings to a ledge of possibly lunatic faith; a young boy is haunted by cosmic loneliness in the form of a medical encyclopedia; the heir to an absent father's wealth can't quite bring himself to claim his portion.
- Far from the metropolitan glitz of Hollywood and downtown L.A., these stories take place in the off-the-grid, suburban neighborhoods of stucco-dwellers. Among car lots and strip malls, dusty brown hillsides and oil derricks, the ordinary becomes epic in the contested terrain between faith and doubt, love and sex, spirit and flesh, reality and illusion.
- Alan Rifkin is a writer for "Los Angeles Magazine." He lives in Long Beach, CA.
- Contents:
- The honor system
- The idols of sickness
- Sonority
- After the divorce
- Signal Hill.
- ISBN:
- 0872864243
- OCLC:
- 52559061
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