Sunset Terrace
During the summer of 1983, Elaine and her daughters Hannah and Daisy move into Sunset Terrace, a squalid, low-rent apartment building in Los Angeles that houses single mothers. They have been on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1931561346
ISBN13:9781931561341
Release Date:April 2003
Publisher:MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Length:311 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.3" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
different side of LA
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I grew up on Sawtelle in LA and was reminded of things I had forgotten while reading this book. Very evocative.
Touching and insightful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Donner does a remarkable job of putting you inside the heads of her characters, especially the 10 year old Hannah. Her ability to make Hannah's (to an adult's mind) illogical thoughts seem perfectly reasonable rises to the level of Lynda Berry, whose little-girl characters also occupy a bleak and forbidding urban landscape.A touching and wonderful book. Donner is a marvelous storyteller.
Gritty new L.A. writing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Donner has a great sense of character and place, and paints her low-rent, Pico-Boulevard setting in tough unsentimental prose.
Great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I was absolutely blown away by this book. A goodfriend recommended I read it and I must say, I wasskeptical (I'm so tired of the "women's novels"crowding the bookstores). But Sunset Terrace is sodifferent than those sappy, predictable books. Theprose is both tough and lyrical, and the characters inthe apartment building are so convincingly described Ifelt as if I knew them. I was so moved by the ending-- the author doesn't overwrite, and she doesn'tprovide easy answers. A true work of art.
Gripping
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Once I read past page one I couldn't put this book down. Heartbreaking, beautifully crafted and utterly original.
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