Unintended Consequences

by Larry Fondation, Kate Ruth (Illustrator)

Unintended Consequences is the 4th installment in Fondation's "L.A. Stories" series. This new collection reveals with precision the way life can tangle good intentions and trip up even the most sure-footed pedestrians. These are compact city fables delivering an anti-moral, a humbling reminder to judge not. The book includes over 40 illustration by artist Kate Ruth.

"Fondation's fiction is so far past noir that it's almost surreal. What's horrifying is that it's not surreal; it's real. Fondation is the author of three books of fiction...and each of these books is a small masterpiece..." -Transfuge (France)

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Larry Fondation has lived in LA since the 1980s and worked for fifteen years as an organizer in South Central Los Angeles, Compton, and East LA. His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in a range of diverse publications including Flaunt (where he is Special Correspondent), Fiction International, Quarterly West, the Los Angeles Times and the Harvard Business Review.

Reviews

[Theo · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I still enjoyed reading this book, I wish I didn't read his last book before this one. The quality of writing between the two books advanced so much that I was slightly disappointed reading this. If you're going to read Larry Fondation, which I highly recommend that you do, I would also recommend that you read his books in chronological order.

[Ma · Rating 2 out of 5]

Los Angeles underbelly tales. Enjoying.