Dec 27, 2009

The Year of the Hot Jock | The Year of the Hot Jock

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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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The Year of the Hot Jock | The Year of the Hot Jock

At a glance:

The Story

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