The Quiet Limit of the World
β Scribed by Carlos Ramet
- Book ID
- 115337265
- Publisher
- Running Wild Press
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781960018403
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β¦ Synopsis
San Francisco in 1978 is a place of urban chaos. But for Diego Contreras it represents a dream of artistic success. As a recent college graduate from an immigrant family, he moves from Los Angeles to find something worth believing in and meets Saloma Sevilla, a wealthy Filipino-Chinese graduate student.Diego and Saloma develop an intense relationship through a series of adventures and misadventures. They must overcome the barriers of social class, family life, and past sexual abuse, as well as deal with a cast of quirky 1970s charactersβ drug-addled creative writing students, pompous professors, hangars-on in a boarding house, and tiresome family members.The City of San Francisco also shapes them. The mayor and city supervisor have been assassinated, an active shooter takes hostages in a downtown office building, the " White Night" riots have engulfed the Castro District and City Hall, and the Weather Underground has bombed a police station. Diego and Saloma must negotiate all...
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