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“No one inflects their prose with the wild and absurd beauty of existence better than Chuck Rosenthal.”  
—Elizabeth McKenzie

LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE

CHUCK ROSENTHAL​

ISBN 9781733378949
Publication date: MARCH 2022
Format: 6 by 9 inches, PAPERBACK
226 pages

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Let’s Face the Music and Dance  is three books in one:  part contemporary love-story set in Los Angeles; part philosophical meditation on desire; and part historical romance set during the siege of Vicksburg and modeled loosely on the film Casablanca. Deftly innovative, intellectually engaging and thoroughly enjoyable, it is Chuck Rosenthal’s 20th book.

Praise for Rosenthal’s The Hammer, the Sickle and the Heart
“The Portuguese novelist José Saramago has defended the construction of fictions centered on historical characters, asserting that facts in themselves are nothing and history only what society agrees happened. It is the novelist’s job to explore this ‘wretched reality’ for deeper and truer explanations. Rosenthal depicts the culture and landscape of Mexico, as well as the destabilizing atmosphere of Kahlo’s Casa Azul, with lyricism and dramatic flair. He excels at creating those intriguing and resonant delays that keep
you reading, even when you know the end of the story.” 
—Karen Kevorkian, The Los Angeles Review of Books

Chuck Rosenthal is the author of thirteen previous novels, a memoir, two books of narrative essays, a book of animal philosophy, and the co-author of two books of experimental poetry. He holds postgraduate degrees in both English Literature and philosophy.  He lives in Topanga Canyon, California.

An imprint of What Books Press, Los Angeles

GIANT CLAW is a small press located in Los Angeles, California. We are an imprint of What Books Press. Both presses are run by the Glass Table Collective, a diverse group of artists and writers.
 
In keeping with the original vision of What Books Press, GIANT CLAW will be publishing unique works of literary merit.  In addition, GIANT CLAW will seek out and publish ground-breaking books of rigorous intellectual imagination and accomplishment.
 
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