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title	:	La Mollie and the King of Tears : A Novel
author	:	Islas, Arturo.; Skenazy, Paul.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826317324
print isbn13	:	9780826317322
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187631
language	:	English
subject	Jazz musicians--Fiction, Mexican Americans--Fiction, San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction, Kohoutek comet--Fiction, Love stories.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PS3559.S44M65 1996eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Jazz musicians--Fiction, Mexican Americans--Fiction, San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction, Kohoutek comet--Fiction, Love stories.

Page iii La Mollie and the King of Tears A Novel Arturo Islas Edited with an Afterword by Paul Skenazy University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv Copyright 1996 by Arturo Islas and Jovita Islas. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any way whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, please address the publisher. The characters and events in this novel are fictitious. Any similarity between them and real persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Islas, Arturo, 1938- La Mollie and the king of tears : a novel / Arturo Islas; afterword by Paul Skenazy. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1732-4 I.. Title. PS3559.S44M65 1996 813'.54dc20 96-4423 CIP

Page v For my students and colleagues

Page vii Contents Chapter I At the Movies 3 Chapter II Trees 37 Chapter III That Old Black Magic 69 Chapter IV Avocado 109 Chapter V Just Like Romeo and Juliet 135 Afterword The Long Walk Home By Paul Skenazy 167 Acknowledgments 199 About the Author 200

Page 2 R. O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? J. What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? R. The exchange of love's faithful vow for mine. J. I gave thee mine before thou didst request it; And yet I would it were to give again. R. Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love? J. But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love is deep: the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2 "Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude..." WALT WHITMAN

Page 3 Chapter I At the Movies San Francisco, 1973 I shoulda told la Mollie I'd be back to her place right after the gig. But I knew she wouldn't believe me, specially cause we were playing at Big Eddie's, this sleazebag jazz joint in the Mission close to where my old girlfriend Sonia lives. But after them shots, man, all I wanted to do was drag this plaster leg of mine back to la Mollie so she could touch it with those magic hands of hers and make the hurt go away. Instead, here I am back in this emergency room waiting to hear if I'm ever gonna feel her fingers on me again. All morning, la Mollie kept talking about some comet and the end of the world. Right in the middle of my giving it to her the way Rhett gives it to Scarlett the night he lugs her up them red velvet stairs after almost crushing her skull between his hands, la Mollie says, "It's the end of the world!" And I'm saying, "Oh yeah, baby," and she says, "Not this, stupid,'' ruining my concentration and turning me into that pansy Ashley Wilkes. I hate it when she does that, man. "Kahoutek," she says, letting it slide out like a wet noodle. "Ka-who-what?" I ask her. "Kahoutek! Kahoutek!" she screams like I'm deaf. "It's a comet the Russians discovered and it's coming tomorrow. Don't you know nothing, Louie?" Of course, she says "anything" cause la Mollie's been to college and talks English real goodnot like meand

Page 4 she gets a big kick outta correcting me in front of her bigshot Anglo friends. She's got family in San Francisco, la Mollie, let me tell you. They're so famous, I can't even say her last name cause if she comes to, like she's gotta, and finds out I'd let some stranger know who she was and it was on tape and all, she'd chew me out and leave my bones drying in the desert.

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