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From award-winning poet Michaela Carter comes a taut and erotically charged literary debut, set against the chaos of the 1992 L.A. riots, about three twentysomethings searching for meaning in their lives
In the Neverland that is Los Angeles, where make-believe seems possible, three dreamers find themselves on the verge of transformation. Twenty-five-year-old poet Gwendolyn Griffin works as a stripper to put herself through graduate school. Her perpetually stoned boyfriend, Leo, dresses in period costume to hawk his music downtown and seems to be losing his already tenuous grip on reality. And their flamboyant best friend and neighbor, nightclub crooner Count Valiant, is slowly withering away.
When the city explodes in violence after the Rodney King verdict, the chaos becomes a catalyst for change. Valiant is invigorated; Leo plans a new stunt--walking into East L.A. naked, holding a white flag; and Gwen, discovering she is pregnant, is pulled between the girl she's been and the woman she could become. But before Gwen can embrace motherhood, she's forced to face the questions she's been avoiding: Can Leo be a father? Can she leave the club life behind, or will the city's spell prove too seductive?
Weaving poetry and sensuality with an edgy urban sensibility, Further Out Than You Thought is a celebration of life, an ode to motherhood, and a haunting story of love, friendship, and one woman's quest for redemption.
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- Title Further Out Than You Thought
- Author Michaela Carter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2014-08-05
- ISBN 9780062292377 / 0062292374
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Stripteasers, Riots - California - Los Angeles - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013033884
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/2014, Page 30
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 06/02/2014, Page 0
- Romantic Times, 08/01/2014, Page 36
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