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Force Majeure

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About the Book

Bud Wiggins dreams of achieving fame as a screenwriter, and he almost made it. Now he finds himself free-falling through a world of absurdity and degradation. Surviving off the underbelly of Hollywood, moonlighting as a limo driver to pay the bills, and mingling sporadically with the industry's elite, Bud bears witness to the hilarity, horrors, mysteries and giddy paranoia of 'the Business'. Bruce Wagner's debut novel is a powerful black comedy that delivers readers to contemporary Hollywood's surreal fringes - a relentless and powerful saga that heralded the arrival of one of the most original and compelling writers working today.

About the Author :
Bruce Wagner is the author of The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist); Still Holding; I'll Let You Go (a PEN USA fiction award finalist); I'm Losing You; and Force Majeure. He lives in Los Angeles.

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"A smashing debut novel...this is superb stuff -- the best yet about Hollywood's humiliated lower orders as they grasp at recovery programs or head for high-priced mental farms. [A] richly done boffo winner." -- Kirkus Reviews "As knowing a novel of late-twentieth-century Hollywood as one is likely to encounter, brilliantly detailed and remorselessly funny. Mr. Wagner is a major talent." -- William Gibson "One of the most memorable recent novels of any kind...I'd even go so far as to say that Wagner surpasses, in at least one respect, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby Stories, which until now was for me (along with Nathanael West's Day of the Locust), the ultimate Hollywood fiction." -- Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer "Wagner is a gifted writer with a canny sensibility loosed among the palms....Unerringly Wagner details the nightmarish triple-think and paranoid symbology of every Hollywood transaction." -- The Washington Post


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780743268967
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0743268962
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 215 mm
  • Returnable: N


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