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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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