{"product_id":"rex-stories-rick-lawton-9780978886240","title":"Rex Stories","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rick Lawton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0978886240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780978886240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sasha Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Rick Lawton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742356058367,"sku":"9780978886240","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rex-stories-rick-lawton-9780978886240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}