| Management number | 239867513 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$8.39 | Model Number | 239867513 | ||
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Rex Stories are the stories of occupants of the Manhattan-based Rex Hotel. Among others, there's Ric the paranoid Cuban, who's beset upon by a CIA-led infestation of cockroaches; Joey who aspires to ski the slopes on white lines of cocaine; deluded Alex who preaches life without illusions; and Luce who looks upon the Rex as "the last refuge of the Real People." Whether or not true, Lawton makes them seem real enough; moreover, surrounded by gentrification, theirs is a reality they can't always bear. Thus readers should be warned: Lawton doesn't offer us a cast of raffish Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon-type characters. The occupants of the Rex are much more descendants of those who once frequented a Greenwich Village saloon-rooming house nearly a century before, the same ones the playwright Eugene O'Neil first introduced us to in the Iceman Cometh.
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | March, 2012 |
| Pages | 144 |
| Subgenre | Short Stories (single author) |
| Series title | No Series |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Sasha Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Character | Ric, Joey, Alex, Luce |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.00 x 0.34 x 9.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.49 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Fiction |
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