Time is the Longest Distance Contributor(s): Fondation, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947879014 ISBN-13: 9781947879010 Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | Crime |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2017961594 |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Lawrence is an awkward, bookish man. He'd been a grad student with a notion to write his thesis about a connection between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nathanael West. That was before a nervous breakdown interrupted his studies and left him homeless. He finds himself on Skid Row during Operation Clean Sweep, a citywide campaign to get rid of LA's homeless. Lawrence is articulate, and sometimes lucid, but more often not. He is well-read, and sees current events through the historical lens of Puritan New England. He views the arrests by the LAPD as a recurrence of the Salem Witch trials. His main concerns are keeping track of his lucky quarter and a piece of blue string. But the police sweeps and the transience of homeless life silently conspire to separate Lawrence from what is even more important to him--his friends, Albert and Joey, and especially, Bekah. Time Is the Longest Distance is a novel about disruption, loss and longing when you have almost nothing left to lose--but not quite nothing.
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