Starlite Terrace

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In 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.   In \u201cThe Man at Noah⿿s Window, \u201d Rex shares the story of his father, a supposed hand double for Gary Cooper in High Noon. In \u201cEclipse of the Sun, \u201d Moss, who lives in fear of the next holocaust, awaits a visit from the long-lost daughter he has tracked down. In \u201cRider on the Storm, \u201d Gary, a rock drummer and born-again Christian, who \u201calmost played\u201d on the Turtles⿿ 60s-hit \u201cHappy Together, \u201d strives to find escape from his personal guilt. And in \u201cThe Woman in the Sea of Stars, \u201d 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.   In 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.