Dead Stars
Author: Wagner, Bruce
ISBN: 9780142196878
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 30 Jul 2013
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
"i>Dead Stars/i> is the i>London Fields/i> of Los Angeles, the i>Ulysses/i> of TMZ culture-an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither."-Tom Bissell, i>GQ /i>br>br>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 i>Glee/i>. br>br>Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, i>Dead Stars/i> 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.
ISBN: 9780142196878
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 30 Jul 2013
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
"i>Dead Stars/i> is the i>London Fields/i> of Los Angeles, the i>Ulysses/i> of TMZ culture-an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither."-Tom Bissell, i>GQ /i>br>br>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 i>Glee/i>. br>br>Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, i>Dead Stars/i> 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.
