Death Row Restaurant - Brossura

Gonzalez, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1955904979 ISBN 13: 9781955904971

Casa editrice: Clash Books, 2024

Riassunto

Death Row Restaurant is a debut satire novel about a disenchanted flight attendant searching for “authentic experiences” who instead finds an unexpected opportunity running a restaurant staffed by serial killers.

Flight attendant, Dave Aslin, circles the globe in search of true experiences that he’s never quite found. When Dave meets a canceled child actor from the 1980’s sitcom ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ who is planning a radically new restaurant concept, his life's itinerary is forever altered. The proposal is a restaurant housed inside the gas chamber at San Quentin prison and staffed entirely by serial killers.

Combining the craze for authentic restaurants and pop culture’s love of serial killers, this debut novel balances satire with dark psychological horror to deliver poignant commentary on society’s relationship to work. Death Row Restaurant gazes into the intersection between the serial killers we despise and the inevitable distortions of capitalism that shape our lives.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Daniel Gonzalez is the author of Death Row Restaurant. His work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, Hobart, The Fiddleback, Defenestration, Pravic, The American Book Review, Nonsite and other places. He lives in Evanston, Illinois and can be contacted on Twitter @DRRmarch2024.

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Kate would never have gotten involved with Death Row Restaurant if she hadn’t hated Wichita, Kansas so much. The whole thing began in the lobby of United Airlines’ flight attendant training facility in Chicago. Kate and Tina, both in their mid-twenties, had just endured a long-winded graduation ceremony, the culmination of ten weeks of flight attendant training. When most people think of flight attendants they picture them pouring diet cokes into small cups and doling out headphones. But the reality of flight attendant training had been much more intense. At thirty thousand feet dangers proliferate. Flight attendants now get significant medical training and even hand to hand combat training. Fully one third of Kate’s initial training class hadn’t survived the regimen. And although Kate’s parents did not fly in for her graduation and Kate’s friends from college and her parents' friends from her hometown of Scarsdale, New York will no doubt think of Kate as a sky waitress, Kate had bigger concerns than their misguided notions of what flight attendants do. What mattered to Kate on the day of her graduation was her route assignment. With zero seniority, Kate knew her inaugural route assignment wouldn’t be glamorous. But Kate felt strongly, perhaps for the first time in her life, that after many cancellations and mechanical delays, her life was finally ready for takeoff.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Clash Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1955904979
• ISBN 13: 9781955904971
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 241
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile