A pupating transsexual strips his/her way to affordable surgery; a girl smells sex as a black Cadillac screeches past; a woman murders her ex-husband to fight cancer; and an old beauty fades with as much style as she can muster. A collection of tales of tarnished glamour and seedy sex set in LA.

Slow Dance On the Fault Line California

Literature & Fiction

Rawley, Donald

Short Stories & Anthologies

Flamingo

From the seedy sun-drenched bungalows to Polo Lounge booths to opulent mansions along winding canyon drives, Donald Rawley shines a merciless light on a city perched precariously on the rim of the desert and edge of reality. In these fourteen finely crafted gems of impassioned lyricism, the author rakes his pen across the glistening veneer of Los Angeles' elusive fantasy and hard-boiled glamour to expose the unvarnished, unsavory truth underneath. Whether focusing on a comedian's homicidal greed, a second-rate screenwriter pondering his lot sitting naked in a Bentley, or a valium-addicted beauty seeking gratification amid a tawdry carnival sideshow, Donald Rawley relentlessly excavates LA's sun-bleached graveyard of broken hopes, shattered dreams and sordid memories.

Slow Dance on the Fault Line

Contemporary

Suddenly abandoned by his wealthy, self-centered mother and overbearing grandmother, ten-year-old Lindsay Paul Fowler is sent to spend the summer of 1968 with his grandmother's maid, an affectionate black woman, in South Phoenix. A first novel. Reprint.

The Night Bird Cantata

Harper-perennial

A collection of fourteen short stories about the tawdry and sometimes murderous side of life in Los Angeles includes "The Secret Names of Whores," winner of the Pushcart Prize. By the author of The Night Bird Cantata. Reprint.

United States

Los Angeles. As luxurious as it is decadent, it is host to lush and extravagant galas, aglitter with the rich and famous, overrun by exotic cars, rife with crazed body builders, peopled by agents scoffing at nine-figure deals, and haunted by greed, ambition, and despair. Devastated by earthquakes, it is even more gloriously rebuilt. But beneath it all echo the cries of infants murdered by drug addicted parents, husbands who kill themselves in hotel rooms, and marriages broken over bank accounts. From the best to the worst, Donald Rawley offers it all up in a sprawling book that captivates the reader with its devastating honesty.

The View from Babylon: The Notes of a Hollywood Voyeur

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Grand Central Publishing

Malibu Stories: Poems

Black Tie Pr

Mecca: Poems

Steaming

Duende: Poems

Teen & Young Adult

Sirens

Poetry

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