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Also by James Frey:

Next To Heaven, June 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Endgame, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, April 2011
Hardcover
Bright Shiny Morning, May 2008
Hardcover
My Friend Leonard, May 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
A Million Little Pieces, September 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
My Friend Leonard, June 2005
Hardcover

Bright Shiny Morning
James Frey

Harper
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
512 pages
ISBN: 0061573132
EAN: 9780061573132
Hardcover
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Fiction

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original.

Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home.

Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.

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