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    L.A. Child and Other Stories
    L.A. Child and Other Stories
    L.A. Child and Other Stories
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    L.A. Child and Other Stories

    By Penny Jackson

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    In this collection of award-winning short stories, men, women and teenagers from London to Boston to Hiroshima to India grapple with the unpredictability of their lives. A teenager receives a gun from his best friend when he finds out his girlfriend has been unfaithful. A teacher in Hiroshima finds herself acting in a live sex show. A young man fakes an act of heroism at the George Washington Bridge so he can be famous. A hostess in a Wonderland-themed amusement park loses her identity to become the "perfect" Alice. And, in the Pushcart Prize-awarded title story, a group of disenfranchised young adults try to make sense of the artificial world that is Los Angeles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUntreed Reads
    Release dateDec 11, 2013
    ISBN9781611876475
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