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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