The burning ground
By: Adam O'Riordan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781408864777; 9781408864784
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: In these eight stories, an English writer focuses his gaze on America's West Coast, moving from fractured lives in remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach.A man visits his long-distance lover in Los Angeles and forges an unexpected bond with a fellow traveller on the way; a teenager interviews a businessman for his school newspaper and their paths continue to cross, throughout life; the foreman of a desert building project embarks on a journey down the Pacific Coast Highway and into California's underworld when his employer's daughter goes missing; a lonely widower reflects on the past and confronts a disturbing and long suppressed memory; a divorced father tries to reconnect with his son on a hunting trip; an artist finds peace in exile after the disintegration of an affair; and itinerant Brits discuss love and acting in downtown LA.Written with an outsider's keen eye, this collection of stories paints an intimate portrait of diverse lives, in a work of remarkable beauty and poignancy.
Table of contents: title: A thunderstorm in Santa Monica; title: The El Segundo blue butterfly; title: Rambla pacifico; title: Wave-riding giants; title: Black bear in the snow; title: The burning ground; title: '98 Mercury Sable; title: Magda's dancer.