"This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill... It's a frightening, nihilistic cousin of _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_."--_Publishers Weekly_ Never before available in Engli
Halfway House
โ Scribed by Weston Ochse
- Publisher
- JournalStone Publishing
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The Halfway House...a place shrouded in mystery...standing shunned and ignored...yet seeming to devour the souls of everyone who dies in San Pedro. Bobby Dupree...an epileptic loner from a Memphis orphanage who is on a journey to find out if he truly is...the son of the King of Rock and Roll. When Bobby's quest becomes entwined with an old surf bum and his estranged daughter, the 8th Street Angels, and a dicey porn director, he discovers that Los Angeles holds more opportunities and dangers than he could have imagined. Discovering he's at ground zero to a seventy-year-old spiritual curse, all the chaotic events in Bobby's life begin to circle back to the inscrutable force of the Halfway House...
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