Aaron Krach

  • AARON KRACH
  • Handbook
  • The Author of This Book Committed Suicide
  • Discrete, Repeat, Concrete
  • Ceramics
  • Body Books
  • Installments
  • WATCHWORD
  • 20TH Century Men
  • Passages in Modern Sculpture
  • Bulges and Hunks
  • Everything Takes Time
  • Sottsass Showers
  • From Beginning To End
  • Indestructible (Provide)
  • Collages / GVBDL
  • Book Sculptures
  • Will Always Love You
  • Not For Nothing
  • Richard Pryor
  • Rumors & Hope
  • And Printed in a Book
  • FYC / We Are Prepared
  • Indestructible Artifacts
  • Will You Come Back?
  • Almost Everything
  • Each Day, A Little Bit Different
  • Bachelor’s Jam
  • 4,582 Stars
  • Green on Blue
  • Things To Tell Your Lover
  • Sorry I Didn’t Love You (More, Ever)
  • People With Problems
  • Color Theory
  • Small Constructions
  • Untitled City Project
  • 100 New York Mysteries
  • Half-Life

Half-Life, a novel
312 pages, Alyson Publications, 2004
First Edition

During the last year of the 20th century, 18-year-old Adam Westman finds himself “on the verge of manhood,” as his best friend Dart likes to say. He lives in the exact center of center-less Los Angeles with his depressed father, Greg, and imaginative younger sister, Sandra. When Greg suddenly dies, more than everything changes and the relatively smooth orbits of family and friends are altered when Adam needs them most. In the middle of the drama, a man in uniform appears—and he is more than interested in Adam. This man, a policeman, is warm, witty and wise. He is 6 foot-something, dirty blond, and . . . well, he’s a California Boy trapped inside the body of a 38 year-old man. But…

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Half-Life, a novel
312 pages, Alyson Publications
Second Edition, 2006

…how can Adam consider the possibility of a relationship when he is dealing with his father’s death, his friends’ (and his own) pre-pre-pre mid-life crises, his mother’s ambivalence, and his little sister’s need for him? Then again, how can he not?

Half-Life is about being—or at least feeling—young and old at the same time. About loving, or wanting to love, but knowing that life and love are both as exuberant and seductive yet two-dimensional and illusory as a billboard along any of Los Angeles’s endless freeways.

© 2025 Aaron Krach.

  • AARON KRACH
  • Handbook
  • The Author of This Book Committed Suicide
  • Discrete, Repeat, Concrete
  • Ceramics
  • Body Books
  • Installments
  • WATCHWORD
  • 20TH Century Men
  • Passages in Modern Sculpture
  • Bulges and Hunks
  • Everything Takes Time
  • Sottsass Showers
  • From Beginning To End
  • Indestructible (Provide)
  • Collages / GVBDL
  • Book Sculptures
  • Will Always Love You
  • Not For Nothing
  • Richard Pryor
  • Rumors & Hope
  • And Printed in a Book
  • FYC / We Are Prepared
  • Indestructible Artifacts
  • Will You Come Back?
  • Almost Everything
  • Each Day, A Little Bit Different
  • Bachelor’s Jam
  • 4,582 Stars
  • Green on Blue
  • Things To Tell Your Lover
  • Sorry I Didn’t Love You (More, Ever)
  • People With Problems
  • Color Theory
  • Small Constructions
  • Untitled City Project
  • 100 New York Mysteries
  • Half-Life