In the hills above Los Angeles, Paul and Laurie have made their home. Together now for seven years they have settled here; Paul with his lucrative skin-cancer practice; Laurie pregnant with their child. But when the fires start, the cinders find their way through the air-conditioning, and when they are kept awake by the noise of the helicopters bobbing in and out of the body of the city, Paul and Laurie begin to feel the fracture in their lives reflected in the fault-line of the real world below. Setting the suburban American Dream face to face with the American nightmare of inner-city race-riots, Richard Thornley has created an unforgettable novel, written with the accuracy of reportage, the speed of film and the skill of a master story-teller.
- ISBN10 0224050079
- ISBN13 9780224050074
- Publish Date 12 February 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 October 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English