Absolute disaster : : fiction from Los Angeles / [electronic resource] / edited by Lee Montgomery.. — Los Angeles, CA : Santa Monica, CA : : Dove Books ; : Santa Monica Review : : Distributed by Penguin USA,, c1996.. — 383 p. ; 23 cm.
"A Santa Monica review anthology." At head of title: Dove Books presents.
Ackowledgements / Lee Montgomery -- Introduction / Carol Muske Dukes -- Raiding the larder / Sandra Tsing Loh -- How to marry a republican / Julia Seltz -- Patsy is new in town / Allyson Shaw -- Fugue / Aimee Bender -- Tongue / Jenny Cornuelle -- The sinking house / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The present / Benjamin Weissman -- Bust / Charlie Hauck -- Water, blood, leaves / John Peterson -- Along the scenic route / Harlan Ellison -- Crying / Jerry Renek -- White coyote / Lawrence Thornton -- The Chinese girl's blindness / John Steppling -- All along the watchtower / Jervey Tervalon --Wertheimer in the city / Judith Freeman -- The man who knew Dick Bong / Robert Crais -- Dinosaurs / Amy Gerstler -- Entertainment tonight & forever / Rachel M. Resnick -- That whole ever-after number / Jay Gummerman -- The legal case / Michelle Latiolais -- A distant view of hills / Jim Krusoe -- Appease the natives / Peter Craig -- May one / John Mandelberg -- Forever burning / C.P. Rosenthal -- Light ages / Carolyn See.
Анотація: A collection of 23 stories on Los Angeles. They discuss pollution, the urban sprawl and falsehood in people. In Carolyn See's Light Ages, it takes an atom bomb to make citizens aware of nature.
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Short stories, American--California--Los Angeles. American fiction--20th century. Disasters--Fiction. Kurzgeschichte.