The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain - Softcover

Smolin, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692973761 ISBN 13: 9780692973769

Publisher: Anomaly Press, 2018

Synopsis

The final installment in Barry Smolin’s trilogy The Miranda Complex finds Lance Atlas, as he has been all along, splayed on the grass at the La Brea Tar Pits, summer of ’79, in the aftermath of the previous night’s party where he encountered Miranda Savitch for the first time since graduation. In this volume, centered mainly in 1977 & 1978, Lance tries to remember what he spent the night before remembering, something about a Grateful Dead show at the Shrine Auditorium, his friend’s marriage to their teacher, AP English class, an unusual dinner party, heart troubles, the prom, and, of course, the ongoing bundle of torn attentions that makes him so confusing to the human female. When the saga comes to a close, Lance is finally utterly present just as the story catches up with itself. The rest is now.

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About the Author

Barry Smolin is a native of Los Angeles, California. He is the author of the novella Wake Up In The Dreamhouse (2011), Always Be Madly In Love (2011), selected poetry culled from the years 1988- 2010, and Narcissus In The Dark (2012), another novella, in addition to The Miranda Complex Volumes 1 & 2 (2016, 2017). Since 1995 he has been the host and producer of the radio shows The Music Never Stops (1995-2012) and Head Room (2012-present) on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. He has also released five albums of original music under the name Mr. Smolin: At Apogee (2004), The Crumbling Empire Of White People (2007), Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009), Heaven’s Not High (2013), and The Sooterkin Library (2017), as well as setting chapter 1 of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music in collaboration with the band Double Naught Spy Car as part of the “Waywords and Meansigns Project” (2016) and on an instrumental album That Tragoady Thundersday (2016). His music was also featured on the Showtime television series “Weeds.” He can be found online at www.mrsmolin.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Anomaly Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692973761
• ISBN 13: 9780692973769
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380