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Lingua: inglese
Editore: Turner Publishing Company Jun 2023, 2023
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Neuware - - Gritty 1960s Nostalgia: L.A. Breakdown overpowers the sterilized portrait of America in the 60s. Drag racing, drive-ins, and high school graduations are included but Sandra Dee is nowhere to be seen. The cast of characters immortalize the little-known outlaw culture of 1960s Los Angeles a culture full of petty theft, incarceration, and the heart pounding thrill of street racing.- Fast and Furious Writing: Lou Mathews writes at a breakneck speed, peeling out with complex characters stuck in limbo after high school with no thoughts of college. Before they know it, the readers are along for the ride, knuckles white and on the edge of their seat.- Los Angeles Summer: California native Lou Mathews is known for his moving portraits of the real California, honoring the experiences of the Hispanic community and those in a lower socioeconomic class. Locals and tourists alike will be fascinated by his depiction of the Los Angeles underworld.- Praise for the Author: Lou Mathews received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a California Arts Council Fiction Fellowship. ZYZZYVA called his novel, Shaky Town, "one of the best books of fiction to have come out in recent memory.".…
Codice articolo 9781684429783
- Titolo
- L.A. Breakdown (Deluxe Edition)
- Autore
- Lou Mathews
- Editore
- Turner Publishing Company Jun 2023
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2023
- Condizione
- Neu
- Rilegatura
- Taschenbuch
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 1684429781
- ISBN 13
- 9781684429783
- Peso dell'articolo
- 295 grammi
- Dimensioni
- 213x137x28 mm
A 1999 LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK
DELUXE EDITION, WITH NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN RECOVERED CHAPTERS
—Los Angeles, 1967—
With gleaming detail and blinding precision, Lou Mathews freeze-frames a hidden corner of L.A.’s outlaw culture in the moments before it becomes extinct. The heart of the culture is the drive-in, where street racers meet to challenge their rivals and place their bets. This world comes to life after dark, lit by headlights and street lamps, a moveable feast of drag races, peopled with its own lost generation: young men and women who have left high school but have no thoughts of college.
Drifting from one dead end job to another, supplementing their income through thieving, doing the occasional stint in prison, and reluctantly entering the armed services when there is nothing else left, they live, and sometimes die, for the excitement, the danger, the money of racing. In the world of drag racing—fleeting and bittersweet, like the end of summer—the stakes the stakes grow higher and higher as, one by one, each player spins out and disappears from the scene:
Here, we meet Vaca, crippled in soul and body, prefers the armor of his car to a wheelchair. The ex-con Brody—Vaca’s driver—is the best street racer in town. Reinhard, a loner who has no one and nothing but the exquisite machines he builds and races. Charlie, the race organizer who tells the story. And Connie, who rolls her eyes at the whole parade, never without a sarcastic riposte, but who can’t stay away from the boys and their toys.
Stunning, bleakly beautiful, and laugh-out-loud funny, L.A. Breakdown paints a riveting portrait of 1960s Los Angeles, frozen in time yet disintegrating before our eyes with all the reckless speed of romantic era.
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