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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.
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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.
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Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut -In a rundown Los Angeles apartment buildingthe titular Starlite TerracePatrick 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, Rothâ¿¿s dark prose presages a universal and mythical fate of desperation. Â In u201cThe Man at Noahâ¿¿s Window,u201d Rex shares the story of his father, a supposed hand double for Gary Cooper in High Noon. In u201cEclipse of the Sun,u201d Moss, who lives in fear of the next holocaust, awaits a visit from the long-lost daughter he has tracked down. In u201cRider on the Storm,u201d Gary, a rock drummer and born-again Christian, who u201calmost playedu201d on the Turtlesâ¿¿ 60s-hit u201cHappy Together,u201d strives to find escape from his personal guilt. And in u201cThe Woman in the Sea of Stars,u201d 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. Â In each of these four tales of wanna-bes and almost-weres, Roth's L.A. portraits unfold in rare style, and, in Krishna Winstonâ¿¿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. Seller Inventory # 11457