Dead Stars A Novel |
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| Author:
| Wagner, Bruce |
| ISBN: | 978-0-14-219687-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Plume |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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"
Dead Stars is the
London Fields of Los Angeles, the
Ulysses of TMZ culture-an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither."-Tom Bissell,
GQ At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world's youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who's just undergone a mastectomy.... Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending...
More Description"Dead Stars is the London Fields of Los Angeles, the Ulysses of TMZ culture-an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither."-Tom Bissell, GQ
At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world's youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who's just undergone a mastectomy.... Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending Kanye West.... Jackie, a photographer once celebrated for arty nudes of her young daughter, is working at a Sears Family Portrait boutique.... And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning while his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on Glee.
Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner's most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist- post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic.