Steve Scott
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Product Description Buddy Young, "Echo Park's" narrator and his alter ego, Mr. Peepers, live in a multistory house zig-zagging down a hill that overlo
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oks the most beautiful park in Los Angeles. His house guests include a horse, an elderly gay men's club called the Pastime Jocks, occasionally his Mormon mother competing with Santeria-voodoo, and a "lady" who has many paying sweeethearts. Charo, the Little General, Father Rudy, Liberty Flame, Neutotica Jones, a transvesite called Fabulosa, The Suku Suku Club for Entertainment staffed by the "Ladies Of The Midnight Sons," to name a few will indelibly mark one's mind with the stamp of unforgettable characters. The story is borded by the Los Angeles Police Academy, Saint Finbar's almost Catholic Church, Aimee Semple MacPherson's "Angeles Temple" and a suspect sanatorium-all backdrops used by people we seldom see or know. If a surprise doesn't hit you at the turn of every page then a chunk of salacious humor will. Amazon.com Review If you can make your way past Echo Park's overly-rich cast of colorful characters, you'll find a witty and playful first novel of continuous interest. Buddy B. Young is a devoted peeping Tom whose house at the edge of Echo Park in Los Angeles affords him perfect vistas for "bird watching." His alter ego, Mr. Peepers, is a Bausch & Lomb telescope with a foul mouth and a dirty mind, who offers his unsavory opinions whenever Buddy is in a mood to listen. Hoping to ward off a lingering depression, Buddy rents a lower floor of his house to a mysterious gay social club who dub their new meeting place, "The Armpit Lounge." When Buddy and one of his tenants, DeNile Nelson, find a badly beaten woman at the base of a tree near the house, their all-male household is turned upside down. Over the next few weeks, Rosario (who goes by "Chara") heals her own wounds with Santeria herbs, begins to cook fantastic Mexican meals for Buddy, befriends even the chauvinist Mr. Peepers, and gives no indication of moving out. With impressive cultural breadth and verbal facility, Steve Scott weaves a convoluted tapestry of L.A. life.--Regina Marler About the Author Steve Scott was born in Vernal, UT, but has lived in and around Echo Park almost all of his adult life. He owned and operated a Mexican restaurant and a realestate office there. Selling food an dhouses he got to know every street, every off-key venue, and every charismatic character on the prowl in this small town corner of Los Angeles.
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