Larry Fondation
Book summary blurb for Common Criminals
"The inhabitants of Fondation's COMMON CRIMINALS are repelling and compelling, repulsive and attractive as they navigate life, compelled by the competing imperatives of their good intention and petty larcenous souls. A Dickens for the new millennium.This writer pulls no punches-he sees into the hearts and souls of LA and its inhabitants"
- Sally Shore
"[Fondation's] stark, hyperviolent, spookily erotic stories are absolutely addictive. COMMON CRIMINALS is a brilliant and claustrophobic rendering of life as it is lived in the cities of America today"
- Barry Graham
"...A dark account of LA alienation in a controlled style that sheds harsh, electrifying light on the darkness"
- Ronald Sukenick
"COMMON CRIMINALS will grab you where you live, and not let you up for breath"
- Gary Phillips