In 1967, the Summer of Love, 17-year old 'Buckles' Sinclair runs from her privileged home in Scarsdale to hitchhike to San Francisco, but instead of Flower Power, Peace, and Love she finds herself plunged into the darkest heart of the American nightmare. Her abandoned mother, KJ, rebuilds her identity and life in the company of a "family" of homosexual men--she is Wendy to The Lost Boys of Manhattan.

Burn It Down: American Mayhem Vol. 1 (72) (World Prose)

Literature & Fiction

Glasser, Perry

Literary

Guernica World Editions

Blow Up the Ashes, Vol 2 of American Mayhem,reveals the story of Pierre Doucet, a gambler and then a killer for the New Orleans mob during World War 2 who at one time admires from afar a yellow-haired girl. When decades later he travels to New York, he meets KJ again. They discover she was his "yellow-haired girl. " KJ learns Pierre is a killer, but instead of drawing back in horror joins him. KJ and Buckles come together at the novels' end when Buckles wreaks revenge on Big Bill.

Blow Up the Ashes: American Mayhem Vol. 2 (73) (World Prose)

Genre Fiction

Fiction. Fear and dread transform Glasser's characters, who include an abused single mother, a female college student in New York and a retired leadership trainer. All the characters run but cannot escape the images of danger that threaten them. "There is no showing off, no fancy footwork, no faking it," writes Gary Gildner, who selected DANGEROUS PLACES for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. Booklist calls these "finely crafted and original stories" and writes that Glasser's characters "stumble on danger in the least likely places: grocery stores, shopping malls, backyards, and bedrooms." Lee K. Abbott writes, "The most dangerous places in Dangerous Places? Between our ears, it turns out, and in our needy hearts." Ron Carlson observes of Glasser and his characters: "He knows people. He understands the insistent magic of their ordinary dreams." Phillip Gerard writes that "Glasser is that rare writer whose stories unfold with the precision of a Swiss watch," and Ron Hansen called these stories "fabulous, funny, wildly different."

Dangerous Places: stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

BkMk Press

The Ghost of Amelia Parkhurst

The Oaklea Press Inc.

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