Fast Sofa (1993)

Bruce Craven's novel of Los Angeles was published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow. Rick, who grew up in Burbank with his best friend Jack, has stood up his girlfriend, the actress Tamara Jenson, and the jacket promises a drive into the desert with the porn star Ginger Quail. (Open Library)

Watches

Timex (unidentified model): The old Timex Tamara's father gave her is the one he wore when she was a girl, and she keeps it on her nightstand. Waiting for Rick to explain why he stood her up, she reads twelve-fifteen on it and calms herself with the blue exercise from acting class. Later, curled against him after telling him it is over, she watches the luminous face catch the moonlight and picks the watch up to make out 3:33 (p. 97). The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Tamara looked up from the old Timex wristwatch that her father had given her. The one he used to wear when she was a girl. The one she kept on her nightstand. (Bruce Craven, Fast Sofa, scan cataloged as Quill (William Morrow), 1993 (the year of the Internet Archive's and Google Books' records of this edition: its copyright line does not survive in the OCR, and Open Library's edition record gives 1992), p. 57; Internet Archive scan OCR)