The Quiet Limit of the World - Carlos Ramet

The Quiet Limit of the World

By: Carlos Ramet

Paperback | 24 September 2024

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San Francisco in 1978 is a place of urban chaos. But for Diego Contreras it represents a dream of artistic success. As a recent college graduate from an immigrant family, he moves from Los Angeles to find something worth believing in and meets Saloma Sevilla, a wealthy Filipino-Chinese graduate student. Diego and Saloma develop an intense relationship through a series of adventures and misadventures. They must overcome the barriers of social class, family life, and past sexual abuse, as well as deal with a cast of quirky 1970s characters---drug-addled creative writing students, pompous professors, hangars-on in a boarding house, and tiresome family members. The City of San Francisco also shapes them. The mayor and city supervisor have been assassinated, an active shooter takes hostages in a downtown office building, the "White Night" riots have engulfed the Castro District and City Hall, and the Weather Underground has bombed a police station. Diego and Saloma must negotiate all this and come to terms with their own quiet limit of the world.
Industry Reviews
What reviewers said about Ramet's "Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense" " . . . this is one of the best books I've ever read on the career and methods of a popular novelist" --- Jon L. Breen, Mystery Scene

"Ramet provides us with another way to inspect the value of Follett's body of work and to understand the man, but also gives us a view of how books are written and how the real world shapes a writer and his fiction in general. Ramet succeeds in crafting a biography of Follett in which the writing process is examined as well via the life of a literary success story" --- Kim Idol, Popular Culture Review

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