TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montgomery,Lee B.
TI  - Absolute disaster: fiction from Los Angeles 
SN  - 0787110523
AV  - PS572.L6 A27 1996
U1  - 813.010832794 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Los Angeles, CA, Santa Monica, CA
PB  - Dove Books, Santa Monica Review, Distributed by Penguin USA
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Kurzgeschichte
KW  - swd
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Los Angeles <Calif., Motiv>
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/absolutedisaster00mont
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL728031M
ER  -