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Los Angeles Times Book Review " ...hauntingly beautiful, the work of a gifted storyteller with a sharp eye but a tender heart." full text ... <-- BACK |
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Time Out, NY "Rifkin writes with such startling originality that you have to believe he'll be the next darling of the literary world." <-- BACK |
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Kirkus Reviews, *Starred Review "Stories... suggest that Rifkin is what might have happened had Nathanael West lived on and been even more talented ... Exquisite." full text ... <-- BACK |
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OC Weekly "...[Y]ou've got to be ready to read Rifkin. The only guarantee is his craftsmanship, which inevitably is exquisite." full text ... <-- BACK |
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Steve Erickson, Review "As incisive, eloquent and definitive a collection of L.A. stories as any since David Freeman's A Hollywood Education. A Hollywood Education nearly twenty years ago, but from the other side of the psychic tracks, where desperation runs parallel with wisdom." <-- BACK |
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Martha Sherrill "Alan Rifkin's stories have a magnificent plaintive beauty. Not since Flannery O'Connor have so many misfits prevailed." <-- BACK |
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San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "The five relaxed and quietly funny stories in 'Signal Hill' describe the lives of modern Los Angelenos as webs of happenstance and muted catastrophe" full text ... <-- BACK |
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Austin Chronicle Signal Hill ... so oddly out of place and disconnected, unique in fact from the rest of the city's metropolitan sprawl. Likewise, the characters that inhabit the four short stories and the novella" full text ... <-- BACK |
Jill Ciment "Alan Rifkin's deeply felt short stories carefully balance faith and emptiness with both wit and wonder. A terrific collection." <-- BACK |
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Jerry Stahl "A spot-on, weirdly life-affirming and terrifically written batch of stories. I could read this guy all day." <-- BACK |
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Booklist "Rifkin combs L.A and environs for characters usually omitted from the national consciousness: neither drug dealers nor movie moguls, though lit by reflections from the glossy industry surrounding them." full text ... <--BACK |