The Year of the Hot Jock (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Irvin Faust
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1980's
- Setting: Several American cities
- Principal Characters: Pablo Diaz, Ramona Diaz, Rafael “Rafe” Laguna, Jeff Kahn Hialeah
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, 1980’s, Baseball, Athletes, Life, philosophy of, Latinos, Sports, Horses, Racing, Horsemanship
- Locales: United States
The Story
Hot jock and jet-setter Pablo Diaz lives a nonstop racehorse life in the greed and lust of the United States in the 1980's. Flying from city to city, horse to horse, woman to woman, and bed to bed, Diaz's way of living parodies that of an American businessman with no morals.
Successful as a horse-race jockey, Diaz is misguidedly proud of his accomplishments and immorality. Living a hollow life with almost no friends or family values, he goes from race to race, winning most of them, only to wind up dead at the end of some sort of spiritual descent. Diaz has...
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