The King of Lighting Fixtures
168 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:19 Sep 2017
ISBN:9780816535620
Wanderers and writers, gangbangers and lawyers, dreamers and devils. The King of Lighting Fixtures paints an idiosyncratic but honest portrait of Los Angeles, depicting how the city both entrances and confounds. Each story serves as a reflection of Daniel A. Olivas’s grand City of Angels, a “magical metropolis where dreams come true.”
The characters here represent all walks of L.A. life—from Satan’s reluctant Craigslist roommate to a young girl coping with trauma at her brother’s wake—and their tales ebb and flow among various styles, including magical realism, social realism, and speculative fiction. Like a jazz album, they glide and bop, tease and illuminate, sadden and hearten as they navigate effortlessly from meta to fabulist, from flash fiction to longer, more complex narratives.
These are literary sketches of a Los Angeles that will surprise, connect, and disrupt readers wherever they may live.
The characters here represent all walks of L.A. life—from Satan’s reluctant Craigslist roommate to a young girl coping with trauma at her brother’s wake—and their tales ebb and flow among various styles, including magical realism, social realism, and speculative fiction. Like a jazz album, they glide and bop, tease and illuminate, sadden and hearten as they navigate effortlessly from meta to fabulist, from flash fiction to longer, more complex narratives.
These are literary sketches of a Los Angeles that will surprise, connect, and disrupt readers wherever they may live.
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of seven books, including The Book of Want: A Novel and Things We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature through Essays and Interviews. He earned his degree in English literature from Stanford University, and law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1990, Olivas has practiced law with the California Department of Justice. A second-generation Angeleno, he makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife.
Juana
Bar 107
Mateo’s Walk
The Subtenant
Needle
Orange Line
Carbon Beach
Imprints
Fat Man
Kind of Blue
La Diabla at the Farm
Things We Do Not Talk About
Better Than Divorce
Elizondo Returns Home
Mamá’s Advice
Like Rivera and Kahlo
The Lost Soul of Humberto Reyes
@chicanowriter
The King of Lighting Fixtures
Pluck
Still Life with Woman and Stroller
A Very Bitter Man
Silver Case
The Last Dream of Pánfilo Velasco
Homecoming
Meeting with My Editor
Gig Economy
The Three Mornings of José Antonio Rincón
The Great Wall
Acknowledgments
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