{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Five stories track boys and men as they navigate among the ghosts and mirages of greater Los Angeles. Rifkin\u2019s male protagonists are part fuck-up, part primal force, and full of longing\u2014for fathers, for mothers, for sex, for faith, for just getting it right.\r\n\r\nA one-time actor staggers toward his demise and clings to a ledge of -possibly lunatic belief; a young boy is haunted by cosmic loneliness in the form of a medical encyclopedia; the heir to an absent father\u2019s wealth can\u2019t quite bring himself to claim his portion.\r\n\r\nThe ordinary becomes epic in the contested terrain between faith and doubt, love and sex, spirit and flesh, reality and illusion."}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-01T01:52:44.639835"}, "title": "Signal Hill", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T18:24:15.252423"}, "covers": [662996], "subject_places": ["Los Angeles (Calif.)"], "subjects": ["Boys", "Men", "Fiction", "American fiction", "Short stories", "American short stories", "Fiction, general", "Los angeles (calif.), fiction"], "latest_revision": 12, "key": "/works/OL6029406W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1514906A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "revision": 12}