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Dead stars
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- Book Synopsis
- Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood. Telma, the world's youngest breast cancer survivor, is threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old that's undergone a mastectomy. Reeyonna, a pregnant teenager, believes she will befriend Kanye West by auditioning for pregnant teenage porn. A photographer, Jacquie, rejuvenates her career by turning her lens toward dead babies. And Michael Douglas searches for purpose and meaning when his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on the television series, Glee. Wagner gives a tour through the lowest depths of fame-seeking behavior and idolatry in what The New York Times called a "collagelike picture of Hollywood as a sewer of depravity."
- About The Author
- Bruce Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the famous "Cellphone Trilogy," (I'm Losing You, I'll Let You Go and Still Holding), Dead Stars, The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-nominated Chrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg's film Maps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-series Wild Palms for producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons the acclaimed Tracey Ullman'sState of the Union. He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781648210471
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing, (10 October 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 600
- Weight
- 703 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 140 x 48 mm
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