3rd & Orange - Peralta, Joshua

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Résumé :
In 2003, a young man arrives in Long Beach searching for independence and his voice as a writer. In the midst of college, a quixotic letter-writing campaign to city parking enforcement, and concocting great literary odes to the American grocery store worker, he stumbles into a blissful but brief relationship. But at a time when nothing lasts long, the smallest of details-a beer with a troubled friend, afternoon light on a freckled face, mysterious notes on the back of receipt paper-can lead to the longest-lasting impressions. 3rd & Orange, told first in poetry then in prose, is a work of nostalgic force full of clear but painfully belated insights. Readers weave with the author down alleys, through new apartments, toward loss that slowly begins to feel like growth, all the while haunted by the lingering presence of someone who has come into his life just as fast as she is destined to go out.

Biographie:
Joshua Peralta is a writer and teacher based in Oakland, CA. His first book is 3rd & Orange (2022), a novella in poetry and prose. Peralta holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in English, and his stories, poems, and essays have been published in various places online and in print. His illustrated anthology Gross Americana will be released in 2024. Currently, he is at work on a new biographical portrait of the John Fante. Part biography, part literary & local history, and part memoir, the book tells the story of Fante's arrival in the twin harbors of Long Beach and Los Angeles at the beginning of the Great Depression. It traces a young writer's unlikely transformation from a day-laboring slacker to the professional author whose alter-ego Arturo Bandini continues to delight and frustrate readers and writers the world over....

Sommaire:
In 2003, a young man arrives in Long Beach searching for independence and his voice as a writer. In the midst of college, a quixotic letter-writing campaign to city parking enforcement, and concocting great literary odes to the American grocery store worker, he stumbles into a blissful but brief relationship. But at a time when nothing lasts long, the smallest of details-a beer with a troubled friend, afternoon light on a freckled face, mysterious notes on the back of receipt paper-can lead to the longest-lasting impressions. 3rd & Orange, told first in poetry then in prose, is a work of nostalgic force full of clear but painfully belated insights. Readers weave with the author down alleys, through new apartments, toward loss that slowly begins to feel like growth, all the while haunted by the lingering presence of someone who has come into his life just as fast as she is destined to go out....