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Synopsis
A collection of fourteen short stories about the tawdry and sometimes murderous side of life in Los Angeles includes "The Secret Names of Whores," winner of the Pushcart Prize. By the author of The Night Bird Cantata. Reprint.
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Review
‘Hollywood, in all its seedy, glorious glamour, is the setting for these vital, explosive short stories... Rawley’s language is lush – he’s an acclaimed poet – and every word is made to count. Essential reading.’
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‘Rawley has an uncanny knack for making the bizarre beautiful... He achieves an emotional and tonal range that’s extremely impressive.’
Christina Patterson, Observer
‘Rawley writes prose with real poetry in it... he has produced a vivid and memorable first book about America’s strangest state.’
Scott Bradfield, Mail on Sunday
From the Back Cover
In a world crazy with heat and desire, pupating transsexuals strip their way to surgery, young girls bud under hot eyes or smell sex as a black Cadillac swoops by, while older ones find ways to release and renewal through murder and mayhem. In graceful, feline prose, Donald Rawley prowls the ghostly streets of Los Angeles, assembling the most emphatic and most elegiac portrait of this city built on the edge of the desert to have been set down in decades. 'Slow Dance on the Fault Line' sees an iridescent new talent butterfly into literary life in a moment of staggering, spectacular creation.
'Poets don't always have a knack for telling stories; but in the best cases they produce work lit by a love of language and the feel of words on the tongue. Such pleasures are happily evident in Donald Rawley's 'Slow Dance on the Fault Line'... There's a heartlessness in some of these stories, as in the terminally ill woman of "Nirvana Drive" who coolly murders her ex-husband. But Rawley brings an odd, detached sympathy to this impressive range of characters'
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG, 'Independent'
'Rawley has an uncanny knack for making the bizarre beautiful and for capturing the pathos and peculiar dignity of characters who wouldn't normally command respect. He achieves an emotional and tonal range that's extremely impressive'
CHRISTINA PATTERSON, 'Observer'
'Rawley writes prose with real poetry in it... he has produced a vivid and memorable first book about America's strangest state'
SCOTT BRADFIELD, 'Mail on Sunday'
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