ISBN: 0874160596 9780874160598

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 62

"Love shots is a moody, polaroid-postcard style valentine to an America of Forties and Fifties movie myth and literary legend. The stories capture ironic snapshots of misfits and outcasts, spanning the wide land as it bares the depths of its inhabitants' wounded souls: a starlet's journey from nowhere to meteoric fame to an obscure death ; a gigolo's crush on his lady's man ; a tabloid perfect massacre in a New Mexico diner ; a black boxer's fall at the feet of a white woman ; a sax-playing, whiskey-soaked doctor's confrontation with his past on the heels of a hurricane in a not-so-sleepy Louisiana town. A uniquely American vision from (who else?) two Frenchmen"--Publisher description