"The wry and knowing Mike Sager has written a saucy and kinetic
L.A. novel. Celebrity gets fully toasted in this engaging romp
about show business and the clash of cultures high and low, where
the talk is tough before the shooting starts. The spotlight, it
seems, can sometimes be a very dark place."
-Ron Carlson, author, "Return to Oakpine," co-director, MFA
Program in Fiction Writing, University of California, Irvine.
In this artful page-turner, a beloved superstarlet, a
controversial billionaire Hip Hop mogul, and a television
writer/producer idled by a demoralizing strike are linked together
improbably by murder, domestic heartbreak, a sex video . . . and
their inclusion on a secret subscription list for an exclusive
designer strain of medical marijuana. Over a span of three
seemingly ordinary days and nights in Los Angeles, the world
wobbles on its digital axis, and futures are forever changed.
Hollywood, January 2008. The Writers Guild of America is on
strike. An increasingly peevish viewing audience is relegated to a
starvation diet of reruns and old movies. What happens when a
series of shocking, deadly, and prurient events boils over into a
perfect storm of serendipitous, round-the-clock programming? And
what becomes of the major players, whose lives are inalterably
masticated by the public's right to know?
High Tolerance is the second novel by the award-winning "Rolling
Stone" and "Esquire" journalist Mike Sager, whose work has inspired
a number of films, including the classic "Boogie Nights." He
summons his considerable descriptive and narrative powers-and three
decades behind the scenes covering celebrities, gangs, drugs, and
crime-to weave together a raw and insightful tale of complicated
lives in the shifting racial landscape of turn-of-the-century Los
Angeles, the dream factory from which the American Zeitgeist is
exported around the globe.
General
Imprint: |
Sager Group the
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2013 |
First published: |
May 2013 |
Authors: |
Mike Sager
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
282 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9881785-6-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
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LSN: |
0-9881785-6-7 |
Barcode: |
9780988178564 |
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