{"product_id":"the-furthest-palm-rodger-jacobs-9780615682495","title":"The Furthest Palm: The Trace Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Furthest Palm\u003c\/b\u003e is an urban novel shaped as a series of disjointed short stories held together by tone, perception, and the single-named protagonist, Trace, a loner navigating the savage streets of Los Angeles, whose best friends are Jack Daniels, Potter's vodka, his 1948 Packard, and three women -- Lisa, Amy, and ex-wife Josephine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrace is a writer-for-hire, a lifestyle choice that puts him in constant contact with those who live under the \"vaporous cloud of wretched hopelessness\" that is at the core of the rotten L.A. promise. His L.A. is one of drumming rainstorms, raging brushfires, cloying hangovers aggravated by the crackling desperation of marginalized low-budget movie producers, meth-addicted hustlers and con men, a one-armed stripper, taco shop poets, serial killers and cannibals, overcrowded Urgent Care clinics, toxic red tides in the Santa Monica Bay, psychopathic stalkers, and a victim of spontaneous combustion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrace's adventures are mirrored by those of his own fictional alter ego, Dan Knight, a tough-talking, gun-toting P.I. who resolves every conflict, major and minor, with his own brand of bullet-riddled Social Darwinism. Hovering in the background of \u003cb\u003eThe Furthest Palm\u003c\/b\u003e are the ghosts of Chester Himes, Sam Peckinpah, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. By the time we arrive at the shattering epilogue, Trace himself dissolves into his own mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I'm drawn to \u003ci\u003eThe Furthest Palm\u003c\/i\u003e and the adventures of Trace as he wanders through L.A. phenomena, particularly the blown-up pigeon and his dilemma with dwarfs, as well as the Kafka-like episode with the cop, and, of course, Josephine, and all the details of L.A., the dinner and the film and scribbler encounters, the curse of survival.\"\u003cb\u003eRudy Wurlitzer\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePat Garrett \u0026amp; Billy the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodger Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615682499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615682495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silver Birch Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.62d","brand":"Rodger Jacobs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799368478975,"sku":"9780615682495","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-furthest-palm-rodger-jacobs-9780615682495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}