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Scott O'Connor's books have been hailed as "astonishing" (Catalogue Journal), and "so insistently stirring, you want to slim in near to catch every phrase" (New York Times Publication Review). Now, from the author of Untouchable and 50 % World comes A Perfect Universe, a piercingly mental cycle of reviews in the traditions of Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad and Annie Proulx's Close Range.Welcome to the often-overlooked sides of sun-bleached Los Angeles, in which a teenaged bi-cycle thief searches for a kidnapped youngster, a young musician emerges as the lone survivor of a building collapse, and an aging actor faces the erasure of his former. There, far from the Hollywood limelight, we also meet two sisters locked in a detrimental cycle of storage area and illness, coffee-shop regulars whose lives are torn aside by a stunning moment of assault, and the anxious, fraudulent copy writer whose fictions connect these unforgettable personas in delicate and unusual ways.Sharply detected, exhilaratingly paced, and attractively written, A Perfect Universe is a masterful exploration of growing up and growing old, damage and longing, identity and deception, and the seek out redemption, humanity, and grace.
