What you see in the dark [electronic resource] : a novel / by Manuel Muñoz.
Bakersfield, California, in the late 1950s is a dusty, quiet town too far from Los Angeles to share that city s energy yet close enough to Hollywood to fill its citizens with the kinds of dreams they discover in the darkness of the movie theater. For Teresa, a young, aspiring singer who works at a shoe store, dreams lie in the music her mother shared with her, plaintive songs of love and longing. In Dan Watson, the most desirable young man in Bakersfield, she believes she has found someone to help her realize those dreams.When a famous actress arrives from Hollywood with a great and already legendary director, local gossip about Teresa and Dan gives way to speculation about the celebrated visitors, there to work on what will become an iconic, groundbreaking film of madness and murder at a roadside motel. No one anticipates how the ill-fated love affair between Dan and Teresa will soon rival anything the director could ever put on the screen.This thoroughly original work is intense and fascinating in its juxtapositions of tenderness and menace, violence and regret, played out in a town on the brink of change.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616200596 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1616200596 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Couples > Fiction. Motion pictures > Production and direction > Fiction. Bakersfield (Calif.) > Fiction. California > History > 1850-1950 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Noir fiction. Historical fiction. Noir fiction. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
As a famous actress and director descend on the town of 1950s Bakersfield, California, to work on a suspense film at a roadside motel, the townspeople are unaware that local lovers Teresa and Dan's ill-fated affair is about to give any Hollywood film a run for its money. - Baker & Taylor
Bakersfield, California, in the late 1950s is a dusty, quiet town too far from Los Angeles to share that city s energy yet close enough to Hollywood to fill its citizens with the kinds of dreams they discover in the darkness of the movie theater. For Teresa, a young, aspiring singer who works at a shoe store, dreams lie in the music her mother shared with her, plaintive songs of love and longing. In Dan Watson, the most desirable young man in Bakersfield, she believes she has found someone to help her realize those dreams.When a famous actress arrives from Hollywood with a great and already legendary director, local gossip about Teresa and Dan gives way to speculation about the celebrated visitors, there to work on what will become an iconic, groundbreaking film of madness and murder at a roadside motel. No one anticipates how the ill-fated love affair between Dan and Teresa will soon rival anything the director could ever put on the screen.This thoroughly original work is intense and fascinating in its juxtapositions of tenderness and menace, violence and regret, played out in a town on the brink of change. - Workman Press.The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, California, circa 1959, when a famous director arrives to scout locations for a film about madness and murder at a roadside motel. Unfolding in much the same way that Hitchcock made Psychoâframe by frame, in pans, zooms, and close-upsâMun~ozâs re-creation of a vanished era takes the reader into places no camera can go, venturing into the charactersâ private thoughts, petty jealousies, and unrealized dreams. The result is a work of stunning originality.
- Workman Press.
The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, California, circa 1959, when a famous director arrives to scout locations for a film about madness and murder at a roadside motel. Unfolding in much the same way that Hitchcock made Psychoâframe by frame, in pans, zooms, and close-upsâMun~ozâs re-creation of a vanished era takes the reader into places no camera can go, venturing into the charactersâ private thoughts, petty jealousies, and unrealized dreams. The result is a work of stunning originality.