Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the lord of the underworld snatched away her beloved daughter, Demeter was inconsolable. She wandered the world and in her misery allowed the fields to lie barren. In modern parlance, she was "in trauma." Today the Greek goddess of agriculture might have talked about her loss, vented her frustration and worked through her grief. Certainly, she would not have been left alone with her sorrow...
...Mexico in 1989--and Rai presents himself as a narrator with a mission: "I have chosen to tell our story, hers and mine and Ormus Cama's, all of it, every last detail, and then maybe she can find a sort of peace here, on the page, in this underworld of ink and lies, that respite which was denied her by life...
...traces one sister's search for her family's eldest and most beloved sister. The absent sister, Aisling, reigns as a ghost-like presence throughout the book, seducing the rest of the characters with her unfetteredness even as she binds them together. Although the story ranges from the seedy underworld of Tokyo to the hot sands of Cuba, these bonds of family are the center of Martins vivid, exciting novel. As the family unites and separates in the search for Aisling, ties of love money, and deeper genetics link its disparate members...
...also observed with L.A. in the 40s My four L.A. Quarter books cover L.A. from 1947 to 1959. Now, in my Underworld USA trilogy, I'm moving out of the era of my childhood, my era of dimly-recalled events, into the era of my cognizance...
...shows a teenage girl being brutally murdered. Mrs. Christian wants Wells to determine whether the film is an elaborate fake or a piece of "snuff"--the urban legend term for films that show actual murders. Wells agrees to take the case, and his investigation pulls him into the twisted underworld of hard-core pornography and bondage films. He soon discovers the hard way that it's a world that's easy to enter but not so easy to escape. As he's told by Max (Joaquin Phoenix), an intelligent porn store clerk who serves as the obligatory sidekick, "When...