Angelino Heights - by Adam Bregman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>When Dalton Everest, a naive school teacher with a crackerjack, freeform way of expressing himself, forms a fast friendship with Nathan Lyme, a charmer who's cagey about his employment, everything Dalton knew of his previous life is swiftly upended.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When Dalton Everest, a naive school teacher with a crackerjack, free-form way of expressing himself, forms a fast friendship with Nathan Lyme, a charmer who's cagey about his employment, everything Dalton knew of his previous life is swiftly upended. Set up by Nathan to fall hard for Melanee, a frequently drunk French girl and former purse snatcher, Dalton ends up in a pickle and then, paranoid out of his wits, is ultimately chased through the streets of downtown L.A. Angelino Heights</em> is a crime novel obsessed with Los Angeles. It traipses across the city from a crooked pawn shop in Cudahy to a secretive mecca of modernism protruding from a hill in Pasadena to the old timey dive and themed bars, where its protagonists drink up the atmosphere of old L.A.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"If Charles Portis ("America's greatest, least-known writer," according to Roy Blount, Jr.) had written a post-modern film noir screenplay set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, then adapted it into a novel, it would look and sound and smell a lot like <em>Angelino Heights</em>, by author Adam Bregman. The story pairs two unlikely characters engaged in a low-grade, unlikely crime spree. Dalton Everest, a vacuously unsatisfied high school teacher and lounge lizard, is seduced into a life of half-assed burglaries by Nathan Lyme, a handsome, soulless con, who fancies himself...something. The problem is that Nathan can't decide on what that something is, and before long he and Dalton pass a point of no return, almost indifferently. Bregman manages to capture the insalubrious, ignored vein of L.A. life that runs inconspicuously under our noses, hiding in plain sight. It's a world of people making just enough bad decisions to give readers a sinking, hopeless feeling. His dialogue captures the confusion and contraption of artifice slung about between people trying to tap into something that will give their lives meaning. <em>Angelino Heights</em> is a tour through L.A. in the wake of Dalton and Nathan, whose destinies seem more an afterthought than a conclusion. And all the while the city beats out a tattoo in the background, cool and slow, narrow and hard to master." - Shawn Kerivan, author of <em>Name the Boy</em> and <em>Iago's Fool</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>"Adam Bregman's Angelino Heights, </em>steered by two twentysomethings, thrills and mystifies, as Nathan (the worldly, streetwise, though likable, protagonist) </em>winds us through known and unknown parts of Los Angeles with his new, naive and reluctant teacher-friend, Dalton, causing dread in the reader and in Dalton over the arrival of expectant comeuppance. Will they or won't they? is the main question that propels the novel. Good detail and a fine sense of place make this novel a fun read." - Montserrat Fontes, author of First Confession</em> and Dreams of the Centaur</em>. </p><br>
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