Felicity in the Jungle
A Novel
Paperback
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Paperback
Retail Price: $27.95
Set over the course of four years in the late 1980s, Felicity in the Jungle is a story of songwriting guitarist Rush De La Rosa and his arrival and experiences with the Hollywood music industry and the Sunset Strip rock scene. Initially an isolated and starving artist, Rush stumbles upon a cast of characters, musicians mostly, as disparate as the cities that make up L.A. itself, and who save Rush from his humdrum existence. Rush and his fellow musicians, who he affectionately refers to as the Kings of Cement Beach, dream of stardom while sunning themselves on their apartment building rooftop waxing poetically about music. His closest friendship is with Dalton Cruz, the proletariat Angelino, the only King born and raised in Hollywood, and the only one not looking for stardom. Together, Rush, Dalton and the Kings exist among the rock stars and rich and famous, unnoticed but spectacular, and embark on adventure after misadventure. But like most stories, Felicity in the Jungle is a love story. Rush falls in love with the people, the place, the times, the music, and the girl. Somewhere along the line the fast party life of the 80s may catch up to him, but in the meantime there is nothing to do but throw caution to the wind for the sake of experience. Though Rush’s dreams of fame and fortune never ultimately materialize, what he does find is miraculous nonetheless. Like Lazarus coming back from the dead – Rush finds life. Until...
Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 539 pages
Publisher: Los Angeles Avant Garde Publishing (May 10, 2016)
ISBN10: 1513610694
ISBN13: 9781513610696
Genre: FICTION / Literary