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Rex Stories are the stories of occupants of the Manhattan-based Rex Hotel. Among others, there's Ric the paranoid Cuban, who's beset upon by a CIA-led infestation of cockroaches; Joey who aspires to ski the slopes on white lines of cocaine; deluded Alex who preaches life without illusions; and Luce who looks upon the Rex as 'the last refuge of the Real People.' Whether or not true, Lawton makes them seem real enough; moreover, surrounded by gentrification, theirs is a reality they can't always bear. Thus readers should be warned: Lawton doesn't offer us a cast of raffish Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon-type characters. The occupants of the Rex are much more descendants of those who once frequented a Greenwich Village saloon-rooming house nearly a century before, the same ones the playwright Eugene O'Neil first introduced us to in the Iceman Cometh.
