Bøger af Jack Remick

Pacific Coast Highway - A BMW Mechanic. A troubled heiress. A red Ferrari. Murder. The City of Angels-Today. A neo-noir story about a love triangle getting very ugly. Jonny's trip to the dark side of love hits a bump when Bea's jealousy derails his career...

In California's Central Valley an epic love story plays out between Ricky, a seventeen year old Anglo boy and his Chicana girlfriend, Josie Delgado. Driven by social class mores to hide their love, Ricky and Josie are caught between two cultures: Josie's brother distrusts all Anglos, while Ricky's mother forbids him to cross the racial barrier. But the lovers don't listen. Josie will do anything for the boy she loves and loving Josie drives Ricky crazy. When her brother discovers Josie's involvement with Ricky, he sends her away, breaking Ricky's heart. Separated, the two teen-age lovers know there's only one way their story can end and Ricky won't be happy about it

The stories in Throwback open a window on characters living calm everyday lives but underneath that calm there's a violent, bloody, painful, suicidal world and a savage god waiting for them to make a mistake. The hurt oozes up driving each of these people to find a way out-- The kid with a heart murmur wants to be a Marine. A guy finds his lost sister but doesn't know how to handle a fallen angel. A woman with a fatal disease loses all her hair and doesn't want to live without it. Looking for love, a writer finds a demon muse who rips his heart out. A traveling salesman falls in love with a surgical nightmare. Throwback takes you step by step into a dark world where the light is just an illusion.

A woman and a man in a living facility as they age.

A dying poker king with one more game to play.A love-sick mechanic with Jesus issues.A mysterious black woman wearing gold chains.Money and sex, love and death and a showdown in the Sierra Nevada.

Black Madonna in Blue: In a film noir world of back-street hotels and suitcases full of money, two men duke it out for love but only one of them can win. Kress, the mechanic with magic hands falls for Falcon, a black Madonna looking for a knight. Grace Regis, the gambler, is a sick man who plays poker for body parts and blood and he won't let Falcon go. Then the ax falls...

Man Alone is set in and around a complex Seattle where Rat City meets the Billionaires' Club. Zene, a man alone, lives in a chaotic, sexually disruptive and violence-wrecked world. His life ruined after a chain of disappointments and falls-the fruits of his violent nature-Zene runs into Karizma, a love-creature from his past, and he's smitten again, knowing all the while that for him, there's no future in love. Not your basic romance, for sure.

In Ayahuantu, Castle is a hunted man until he meets Onorato.

Satori, this book that took my entire life to put together, is the closest I can come to an answer. I see the whole book and every poem in it as the working out of the endless possibilities of the line. In the end, I came back to the Imagists-Pound, H.D., Amy Lowell, Jack Moodey who taught me that the essence of the poetic line is the image, not the metaphor, which decodes into a system of signs, but the hard, clear, limpid image, the incontrovertible image. Without the image, the poetic line is hollow. But the goal of our art from the cave paintings at Chauvet to the '80s movie Blade Runner and on down has been to make art move.

"Beast" is a pure innocent with one simple goal-to become an expert on the Middle Ages. He comes to Berkeley, the Cathedral of Learning, in 1971, a time of political upheaval, hallucinogenic drugs, group sex, and electric, acid, psychedelic, mind-bending rock and roll. On his quest for meaning he hangs out with a Harley-riding dwarf, a raven-haired Gothic artists' model, a sorority girl turned nymphomaniac, and the heir to a family of French aristocrats with a bloody history dating back to before Joan of Arc. Beast soon discovers that he can't live in the past but has to embrace the present, with its traps and land mines and the horrors of contemporary society-death by motorcycle and bad acid trips. The world is exploding, but students still go to classes, fall in love, get laid, study in libraries, win awards, even graduate. The country is on fire, and Berkeley supplies the fuel.

To be a writer in America, you have to bleed. Eddie Iturbi, a young car-thief obsessed with the dark magic of Beat culture in a mythic San Francisco, sets off on a spaced-out crusade to connect with the Beat gods. En route Eddie links up with living legend Leo Franchetti, the last of the Beat poets. Leo sends Eddie to the Buzzard Cult, where a mysterious mentor reveals the writer''s ritual of blood and words. Changed and invigorated and back in the City, Eddie falls in love with a snake dancer at the Feathered Serpent. She can''t save him from Scarred Wanda, jealous bad-girl of literature, whose goal is to destroy Eddie before Jack Kerouac relays all the magical secrets of the literary universe. Immortality is just a book away. Will Eddie live long enough to write it?

Ex-mercenary Hank Mitchell is doing five years hard time for stealing a tubful of women's underwear. In prison Mitch falls like a bear for his young cellmate. In the prison library Mitch discovers the novels of Genet and the Marquis de Sade and is inspired to write his own story-a saga of family deception, sexual obsession, and contract killing-to atone for all the blood he's spilled. But now his family wants him out and back in the killing game, a game where the rules are about to change ...

The Widow (La Viuda) is ninety-two years old. She lives in a house filled with photos and coins, jewels and a sable coat. Aware that her memory is failing but burning with desire to record the story of her life on paper, she hires Gabriela, a nineteen-year-old Mixteca from Mexico. Gabriela is one of the few survivors of a massacre and treacherous journey to El Norte. Gabriela and the Widow is a story of chaos, revenge, and change: death and love, love and sex, and sex and death. Gabriela seeks revenge for the destruction of her village. The Widow craves balance for the betrayals in her life. In the end, the Widow gives Gabriela the secret of immortality.

Ricky Edwards lives, works, and plays in Centerville, a small California town in the middle of the Valley. Ricky has a gift for music but he'd rather fight, drink beer, chase girls, and debeak turkeys. He debeaks turkeys because he wants a Lifters Car Club jacket with red lettering on the back. He fights because his long-time pal, Linard Polk, teaches him about violence, fast cars, and guns-which drives Teresa, Ricky's hyper-religious mother, nuts. She wants Ricky to escape the legacy of his daddy, an Okie skirt chaser who abandoned the family for a honky-tonk preacher's daughter gone bad. If Ricky can just get out of Centerville, maybe he can make his mark. Valley Boy is Book Two of Remick's California Quartet series.