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- The King of Lighting Fixtures: Stories
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Arizona Press
- Series: Camino del Sol
summary
Wanderers and writers, gangbangers and lawyers, dreamers and devils. The King of Lighting Fixtures paints an idiosyncratic but honest portrait of Los Angeles, depicting how the city both entrances and confounds. Each story serves as a reflection of Daniel A. Olivas’s grand City of Angels, a “magical metropolis where dreams come true.”
The characters here represent all walks of L.A. life—from Satan’s reluctant Craigslist roommate to a young girl coping with trauma at her brother’s wake—and their tales ebb and flow among various styles, including magical realism, social realism, and speculative fiction. Like a jazz album, they glide and bop, tease and illuminate, sadden and hearten as they navigate effortlessly from meta to fabulist, from flash fiction to longer, more complex narratives.
These are literary sketches of a Los Angeles that will surprise, connect, and disrupt readers wherever they may live.
The characters here represent all walks of L.A. life—from Satan’s reluctant Craigslist roommate to a young girl coping with trauma at her brother’s wake—and their tales ebb and flow among various styles, including magical realism, social realism, and speculative fiction. Like a jazz album, they glide and bop, tease and illuminate, sadden and hearten as they navigate effortlessly from meta to fabulist, from flash fiction to longer, more complex narratives.
These are literary sketches of a Los Angeles that will surprise, connect, and disrupt readers wherever they may live.
Table of Contents
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- Mateo’s Walk
- pp. 20-21
- The Subtenant
- pp. 22-25
- Orange Line
- pp. 29-31
- Carbon Beach
- pp. 32-33
- Kind of Blue
- pp. 45-48
- La Diabla at the Farm
- pp. 49-57
- Things We Do Not Talk About
- pp. 58-60
- Better Than Divorce
- p. 61
- Elizondo Returns Home
- pp. 62-66
- Mamá’s Advice
- pp. 67-68
- Like Rivera and Kahlo
- pp. 69-70
- The Lost Soul of Humberto Reyes
- pp. 71-72
- @chicanowriter
- pp. 73-77
- The King of Lighting Fixtures
- pp. 78-113
- Still Life with Woman and Stroller
- pp. 115-116
- A Very Bitter Man
- pp. 117-118
- Silver Case
- pp. 119-120
- The Last Dream of Pánfilo Velasco
- pp. 121-123
- Homecoming
- pp. 124-138
- Meeting with My Editor
- pp. 139-141
- Gig Economy
- pp. 142-143
- The Three Mornings of José Antonio Rincón
- pp. 144-149
- The Great Wall
- pp. 150-152
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 153-154
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816537501
Related ISBN(s)
9780816535620
MARC Record
OCLC
994516617
Pages
167
Launched on MUSE
2017-07-27
Language
English
Open Access
No