3.5Very LA
Publication Date: Available Now from Mulholland Books. Source: Bookbridgr These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire. An ex-con trying to make good as a secur...
The human thing is all an act. He can turn it on and off like that. What he is inside is a monster, a shark, something soulless and ravenous. When i first started reading this I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. I haven't read many books about Mexican drug cartels and drug lords so I didn't kn...
Eww, I took my time with this book, no idea why. It was supposed to be a quick read.I liked the slapstick style, the present tense narration made the plot dynamic and fast.
It's a short story collection, set mostly in the L.A. area. Men are the protagonists - down-on-their-luck men, flawed men, struggling men. There are women too - women who care and women who won't, women who have it together and women who don't. It's L.A. without the glamor, love without the romance....
Lange's getting a lot of praise, much of it drawing positive comparisons with Denis Johnson, among others--and I think it's a strong first collection, yet those comparisons dampened my enthusiasm after I got some ways in. I entered expecting some kind of gee-wow reframing of the short story, and in...
Another book blog find. Fiction noir.
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