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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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Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
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Unrequited love -- Fiction.
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Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
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Alcoholics -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780061795640 (electronic bk.) |
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006179564X (electronic bk.) |
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MWT11920829 |
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