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1994
FIRST EDITION
THE LAST
KNOWN
RESIDENCE
OF
MICKEY ACUNA
BY
DAGOBERTO GILB
A NOVEL
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Publisher's Note | |
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The first novel by a PEN Award-winning writer tells of a Southwestern man who moves into a YMCA to await a check, becomes the center of attention for the indigent, lonely residents, and is involved in a shocking event. | |
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Industry reviews | |
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"In time the novel begins to read like a western as conceived by Samuel Beckett or Michelangelo Antonioni or Nathanael West: a shaggy dog story where nothing happens and nothing is going to happen, where small doubts and terrors roam the psyche's hallways at night and where the ragged, somnolent rhythms of the days resemble those of a mind taking its own measure, finding, in the process, that it cannot ever quite know itself." |
Synopsis
Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a vague past and a vaguer future. Emerging from the landscape of the Southwest, buffeted by life and licking his wounds, he moves into a YMCA to wait for a check that is coming to save him and that demands an address. As days and then weeks pass without its arrival, he picks up work - first odd jobs and then shifts at the cash register of the Y - and hangs out with his neighbors, playing handball, drinking coffee, shooting pool, getting drunk, falling in love or lust with women he meets, works with, passes on the street. In the vacuum of the Y, Mickey finds himself becoming the unwitting center of a community starved for human contact and for meaning: Sarge, with his fast-food coupons; Omar, with his drunken rages and obsession with the vanished Lucy; Rosemary, whose abundant physical presence both attracts and repels him. Mickey fights to maintain his distance and his freedom, until the narrative converges abruptly around him in a profound and shocking conclusion.
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PUBLISHED BY GROVE PRESS
FIRST EDITION
ISBN# 0802115543
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
218 PAGES
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