Loisaida — A New York Story
- Publication Date: October 2, 2010
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Genre: Literary fiction, neo-noir, literary thriller,
- Author: Marion Stein
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780615336817
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x .08 inches
- Shipping Weight: .905 pounds
- Suggested Retail Price: $12.99
- Direct from Publisher Price: $5.99 plus S&H
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“Loisaida is that very rare and beautiful beast – a literary thriller. Marion Stein has such tremendous skill as a writer, that she is able to transport us back to the New York of old, the pre-gentrified New York, and drop us straight in. What is really stunning about this, is that she does it through a series of voices that are so distinct and pitch-perfect that you feel the reality of these characters, without feeling the author intruding on you. This book is a mystery trip that you take with the characters, and the characters alone – and that is the true test of a great author. Written with the subtle gray strokes of the real world, where nothing is black and white and nothing is good or evil, Loisaida defies characterization as purely literary fiction or purely thriller – it is, simply put, a stunning trip.” — Cody James, author Babylon and The Dead Beat.
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Description: One sweltering night, in a neighborhood on the cusp of change, boy meets girl. If they’d only gone home together, they might still be alive. The core of this gritty, only in New York-story was inspired by real events – a beautiful, aspiring dancer slain, her corpse dismembered, possibly fed to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park. The psychotic roommate has confessed, but a dilettante actor turned journalist thinks there’s more to it and investigates. Soon one of his sources mentions he might have better luck gaining trust if he’d shoot dope. Welcome to New York’s East Village, aka Loisaida, circa 1988. Meet your neighbors — artists, dreamers, hustlers, devil worshipers, anarchists, junkies and yuppies — all competing for breathing space in a city without air. It’s the era of greed, when the poor are objects of scorn not sympathy, and the gentrifiers view themselves as urban pioneers. This is a story about sex and drugs and real estate. This is a story about a murder.
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Schrodinger’s Telephone
- E-book: Exclusively on Amazon
- Genre: Novella, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction
- Words: Approx 26,000
- Author: Marion Stein
- Language: English
- Suggested Retail Price: $1.99 $0.99
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Schrodinger’s Telephone is a new novella by Marion Stein. This story is a one-sitting read of approximately 25,000 words. See the editorial review from the No-hoper blog, or read the customer review reprinted from Amazon UK below:
Schrodinger’s cat for humans.
The hypothesis behind Marion Stein’s novella can be expressed simply enough: might it be possible to be dead in one world, yet alive in another? If a cat can do it, why can’t we?
Schrodinger’s Telephone, like Stein’s earlier Loisaida, is a New York story. Lizzie Greene is a New Yorker with an enviable life: a job she loves, a home she loves, a husband she loves, and a baby she’s going to love as soon as it’s born. But then husband Jeff is murdered, a random act of violence whicb blows her world apart; and just to ensure that she can never put it together again, she suffers a miscarriage.
But Lizzie has a reason for not accepting her tragedy: Jeff’s banal telephone call… made nearly an hour after he was known to have died. Everybody thinks she’s crazy, but Lizzie is sure that Jeff is alive and well in a world where she might just be able to join him.
Schrodinger’s Telephone is desperately sad, but also full of hope. Is death really the end, or is there no such thing as the end? Schrodinger’s Telephone won’t give you the answer, but it will at least make you consider the question.
Terrific.
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The Death Trip
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- Genre: Literary Science Fiction, Medical-Techno Thriller, Novella
- Words: Approx 21,000
- Author: Marion Stein
- Language: English
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Description: The Simulated Life Elapsed Process aka The Death Trip is touted as a pharmaceutical alternative to end of life pain and suffering — a dream state that makes the user’s last minutes feel like years spent living the perfect existence. But is this one-way ride really the paradise promised by Panacium Inc? The Death Trip “comfort care for the dying” or something more nefarious? Some say there’s even a link to the newest party drug. After the death of his beloved grandmother, Chuck decides to investigate and soon finds himself torn between two women — the activist who suspects a dark agenda and the beautiful MD who helped create the process.
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