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Corksucker (Cab Driver Stories from the L.A. Streets) - Dan Fante

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Manufacturer : Wrecking Ball Press
Release date : 22 December 2005
ISBN-10 : 1903110262 | ISBN-13 : 9781903110263

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Corksucker by Dan Fante

Posted : 3 years, 3 months ago at Oct 10 13:43
It could be argued that good fiction contains an element of emotional tourism; an opportunity to empathise with the feelings and experiences of others, without having to actually spend your life living through their consequences. If so, the setting of Dan Fante’s collection of short stories, ‘Corksucker*’, in the seedy underbelly of L.A. could not be more appropriate. Fante has no more interest in the glamour of Hollywood than he does in the lives of those that society has protected and rewarded. Instead he places his central character in a broken down cab that works the baking hot streets by day and accepts the dangers of picking up strangers in an unforgiving city by night. The setting is matched by the dark and oppressively harsh lives of the people whose stories he te...Read more

Rating : 7/10