Larry Fondation
Angry Nights, Larry Fondation's first installment in his "L.A. Stories" series, is a novel about buried life in the darkest corner of the darkest alley in Los Angeles. And yet, for all its sense of doom, this illuminating novel is also about the force of life interrupting through the rubble of the inner-city: manic, defeated and yet curiously determined. Angry Nights is a thoughtful picture of our postmodern zeitgeist, where the system interfaces flesh and concrete.
Angry Nights "shimmers with real heat"
-- Los Angeles Times
"Larry Fondation hears original worlds at launderettes and the rave of demons at the park fountain. The nights are angry and so are the shadows that haunt the memories of broken promises in this exceptional novel. The interior stories uncover bullet holes, bitten nails, open sores, and other common miseries with the ironic manner of a barefoot game show host. The characters are wise, and some of them are measured with a brush of violence in curt conversations. "Angry Nights" could cure the cruelties of silence."
-- Gerald Vizenour, author of "Grievr--An American Monkey in China" and "The Heirs of Columbus"
At a time when the plight of urban America increasingly makes for grim headlines and when some have even cast the very future of our cities in doubt, Angry Nights provides a gripping account of life in the American inner city. In prose that is terse and bristling with tension, Angry Nights reveals a highly charged world that many of us fear, or worse, prefer to deny.
-- Good Reads