Rider Harry Gamboa Jr 9781448670307 Books
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RIDER diverts the reader via off-route trips aboard public buses and trains across 21st Century Los Angeles. Welcome aboard!
Rider Harry Gamboa Jr 9781448670307 Books
"Rider," the new fiction collection by Harry Gamboa, Jr. deftly captures the absurd universe that is Los Angeles in the 21st century as it devolves into a lesser version of its former self. "Rider" refers to the riding of the public transit system in Los Angeles: metro buses and trains. Each piece in the collection has a title that refers to a bus or metro train stop or a station. Gamboa takes the reader from East L.A. to the Getty, from Sunset Blvd. to the La Brea Tar Pits. He draws portraits of passengers lost in the de-centered maze that is L.A. as well as protagonists who themselves are searching for something or no longer have the energy or the desire to search for anything. Gamboa shows us the fear that drives life in the urban chaos of his home city. At one point, in the story, "Barrington Avenue and Terryhill Place," he writes, "The evening sun is nearing the horizon as it is being devoured by the moon's silhouette during a partial eclipse. The image burns into my retina triggering overpowering primal fears, releasing adrenaline followed by the immediate withdrawal effects of startled shaking and coldness within the core of my body." L.A. is portrayed as a portal of fear, trembling and loathing even among its strange beauty and serene climate. One of the collection's highlights is "Whittier Boulevard and Lorena Street." The area was an actual haunt of the author's when he was growing up and filled with memories that he seems he rather forget or bury. Gamboa encounters a former ghost of a friend or acquaintance. We learn of a fake eyelashes, herion, knives, rumors and self-destruction: "I knew every inch of the barrio and had a holographic understanding of every possible escape route from any point and in every direction." That line describes Gamboa's grasp of L.A.'s underlying reality, the hard edged truth of a fantasy land. By the end of the collection one is reminded of something that Camus has his main character, Meursault, in "The Stranger" ask the judge: "Do you want my life to be void of meaning?" And Gamboa in "Rider" might well answer in the affirmative.Product details
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"Rider," the new fiction collection by Harry Gamboa, Jr. deftly captures the absurd universe that is Los Angeles in the 21st century as it devolves into a lesser version of its former self. "Rider" refers to the riding of the public transit system in Los Angeles metro buses and trains. Each piece in the collection has a title that refers to a bus or metro train stop or a station. Gamboa takes the reader from East L.A. to the Getty, from Sunset Blvd. to the La Brea Tar Pits. He draws portraits of passengers lost in the de-centered maze that is L.A. as well as protagonists who themselves are searching for something or no longer have the energy or the desire to search for anything. Gamboa shows us the fear that drives life in the urban chaos of his home city. At one point, in the story, "Barrington Avenue and Terryhill Place," he writes, "The evening sun is nearing the horizon as it is being devoured by the moon's silhouette during a partial eclipse. The image burns into my retina triggering overpowering primal fears, releasing adrenaline followed by the immediate withdrawal effects of startled shaking and coldness within the core of my body." L.A. is portrayed as a portal of fear, trembling and loathing even among its strange beauty and serene climate. One of the collection's highlights is "Whittier Boulevard and Lorena Street." The area was an actual haunt of the author's when he was growing up and filled with memories that he seems he rather forget or bury. Gamboa encounters a former ghost of a friend or acquaintance. We learn of a fake eyelashes, herion, knives, rumors and self-destruction "I knew every inch of the barrio and had a holographic understanding of every possible escape route from any point and in every direction." That line describes Gamboa's grasp of L.A.'s underlying reality, the hard edged truth of a fantasy land. By the end of the collection one is reminded of something that Camus has his main character, Meursault, in "The Stranger" ask the judge "Do you want my life to be void of meaning?" And Gamboa in "Rider" might well answer in the affirmative.
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