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Title Statement | The complete ballet: a fictional essay in five acts / John Haskell. |
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Author | Haskell, John, 1958- |
Publication | Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press,[2017]©2017 |
Extent of Item | 200 pages ; |
ISBN | 1555977871 (pbk.) 9781555977870 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3154219 |
Summary | John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicality--and psychology--of dance. The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the pre-cell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novel's violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person. |
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By Topic | Gambling--Fiction |
Debt--Fiction | |
By Location | Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction |