Still holding / Bruce Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Bruce, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Motion picture industry--Fiction.

Motion picture industry.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Satirical literature.

Physical Description:

349 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2003]

Summary:

By all accounts, Bruce Wagner operates in a literacy milieu all his own. In each of his three previous novels, "I'll Let You Go, I'm Losing You, and "Force Majeure, Wagner has trained a merciless spotlight on all things Hollywood and managed to capture, with fabulous precision and unexpected pathos, the singular essence and rhythm of life in the dream factory--where aspirations are never too big, morality is always relative, and the elusive deal-of-a-lifetime reigns forever supreme. "The New York Times hails Wagner as "virtuosic" with a gift for "luxuriant, bewitching prose." Now, in his most ambitious novel to date, Wagner immerses readers in post-September 11 Hollywood, revealing every bit as much rabid ambition, rampant narcissism, and unchecked mental illness as before. Wending his way through an entangled mass of legit stars, delusional wannabes, and simmering sociopaths, Wagner infiltrates the gilded life of a superstar actor cum universal sex symbol cum practicing Buddhist. After an attract by a fan, the actor spends a year recuperating in the care of his father, an opportunistic monster, and a young actress who gets her big break playing a "Six Feet Under corpse-of-the-week. Alternatively hilarious and heartfelt, ferocious and empathic--and already optioned for a major motion picture--"Still Holding is the finest work of expertly calibrated storytelling yet from Bruce Wagner.

ISBN:

0743243374

OCLC:

52509655