Half-Life Paperback - 2004

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During the last year of the 20th century, 18-year-old Adam Westman finds himself "on the verge of manhood," as his best friend Dart likes to say. He lives in the exact center of center-less Los Angeles with his depressed father, Greg, and imaginative younger sister, Sandra. When Greg suddenly dies, more than everything changes and the relatively smooth orbits of family and friends are altered when Adam needs them most. In the middle of the drama, a man in uniform appears--and he is more than interested in Adam. This man, a policeman, is warm, witty and wise. He is 6 foot-something, dirty blond, and . . . well, he's a California Boy trapped inside the body of a 38 year-old man. But how can Adam consider the possibility of a relationship when he is dealing with his father's death, his friends' (and his own) pre-pre-pre mid-life crises, his mother's ambivalence, and his little sister's need for him? Then again, how can he not?

"Half-Life "is about being--or at least feeling--young and old at the same time. About loving, or wanting to love, but knowing that life and love are both as exuberant and seductive yet two-dimensional and illusory as a billboard along any of Los Angeles's endless freeways.

Aaron Krach has written for "Time Out New York," "Out "magazine, "InStyle," thePosition.com, CBSHealthwatch.com, "The Independent Film and Video Monthly," "TVTS," "Oui," "DOX" "International Documentary Film," "indieWIRE," "A&U magazine Instinct," "HX," "The Villager," "Downtown Express," and "TWN "(Florida). The former editor of "Empire Magazine "and arts editor of "Gay City News," he is now the senior editor of "Cargo "magazine. He lives in New York City. "Half-Life "is his first novel.

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