{"product_id":"9780857420824","title":"Starlite Terrace","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn “The Man at Noah’s Window,” Rex shares the story of his father, a supposed hand double for Gary Cooper in \u003ci\u003eHigh Noon\u003c\/i\u003e. 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’ 60s-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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each of these four tales of wanna-bes 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 Ed Ruscha-inspired California becomes a compelling pageant of all-American grotesques that is not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008678510832,"sku":"9780857420824","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857420824_p0.jpg?v=1763835931","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857420824","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}