From the seedy sun-drenched bungalows to Polo Lounge booths to opulent mansions along winding canyon drives, Donald Rawley shines a merciless light on a city perched precariously on the rim of the desert and edge of reality. In these fourteen finely crafted gems of impassioned lyricism, the author rakes his pen across the glistening veneer of Los Angeles' elusive fantasy and hard-boiled glamour to expose the unvarnished, unsavory truth underneath. Whether focusing on a comedian's homicidal greed, a second-rate screenwriter pondering his lot sitting naked in a Bentley, or a valium-addicted beauty seeking gratification amid a tawdry carnival sideshow, Donald Rawley relentlessly excavates LA's sun-bleached graveyard of broken hopes, shattered dreams and sordid memories.
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"A vivid and memorable book about America's strangest state." -- --The Mail
"Donald Rawley makes myth of our lives." -- -- Kate Braverman, Author of Squandering the Blue
"Donald Rawley makes myth of our lives." -- -- Kate Braverman, Author of Squandering the Blue
About the Author
Donald Rawley was a contributing editor at Buzz magazine and German GEO. A recent Pushcart Prize winner for fiction, Rawley published his work in The New Yorker, Harper's, Story, American Short Fiction, Genre, and Press, among others. His published works include a novel, The Night Bird Cantata; a short story collection, Slow Dance on the Fault Line; and a collection of essays, Letters from Hollywood. He died in 1998.
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Sensuous, Shimmering,
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This review is from: Slow Dance on Fault Line (Paperback)
Rawley writes with the sensualist's pleasure in the physical world. His prose alternately shimmers like mirage-lakes and flashes like sunlight off chrome. His images sometime border on the hallucinatory. The stories don't reach deeply into life. Beauty here is skin-deep; but what pleasure in this flesh!
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Sensuous, Shimmering,
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This review is from: Slow Dance on Fault Line (Paperback)
Rawley writes with the sensualist's pleasure in the physical world. His prose alternately shimmers like mirage-lakes and flashes like sunlight off chrome. His images sometime border on the hallucinatory. The stories don't reach deeply into life. Beauty here is skin-deep; but what pleasure in this flesh!
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This writer is [was--he died] mastered writing...turns of phrase...etc. This is excellent for writers to learn "how it's done." Beautifully-written stories, with superb crafting using metaphor, simile..."show don't tell."
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