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Shaky Town

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS "L.A. is where you reside. Shaky Town is where you live." Welcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens. In this masterwork of panoramic style, Lou Mathews-a former mechanic and street racer-weaves together the tragedies and glories of one eastside neighborhood in the 1980s. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war, to an Irish priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another. A luminous achievement of peerless authenticity, Shaky Town captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down Matthews's marker as one of the city's great chroniclers.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781684428083
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 228
  • Published:
  • March 1, 2023
  • Dimensions:
  • 215x139x17 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 298 g.
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Expected delivery: November 22, 2024

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS
"L.A. is where you reside. Shaky Town is where you live."
Welcome to Shaky Town, a place invisible on maps and found only in the secret heart of its citizens.
In this masterwork of panoramic style, Lou Mathews-a former mechanic and street racer-weaves together the tragedies and glories of one eastside neighborhood in the 1980s. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war, to an Irish priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous fault line but remain unshakable in their connections to one another.
A luminous achievement of peerless authenticity, Shaky Town captures the grit and gold of working-class Los Angeles and lays down Matthews's marker as one of the city's great chroniclers.

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