| The time is 1971. The place is Los Angeles. There has been an earthquake in Sylmar,and Dennis Murphy and Rufus Blue areworking on a highway crew to repair thefreeway. The line of jobs Murphy andBlue have held and lost -car-wash boys,carpenters, stuntmen stretches over twentyyears and across a shared landscape of wivesand ex-wives, distant growing children,drinking evenings and other women. Theyhave lived as if each day is new and untiedand unblemished by the last, as if they haven tleft tracks. Believers in the California Dream,they wait for the weather change that willbring success at last. But the change hasn t come. In SouthernCalifornia one day follows another, the samein its youthfulness and its erotic charge, itsblistering fight, its constant sense of promise.Until now, for reasons they don t understand,Murphy and Blue find that their fives aredefinitely shifting. In his tremendously powerful short novel,John Sacret Young has created a classicportrait of two men trapped in their ownversion of our collective dream. Spare andrich at the same time, his is an original voice.The story he has to tell is gritty and essentiallyAmerican and profoundly moving. |
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