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Bright Shiny Morning

By James Frey

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| eBook | 9781848541177

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Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. ?á It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. ?á?á Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. FreContinue

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. ?á It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. ?á?á Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey's trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.?á?á?á?á?á?á?á?á

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  • Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

    A stunning debut novel from the author of the controversial rehab memoir A Million Little Pieces, which threads together several different narrative strands with snippets of history and striking litanies, to provide a unique and brilliantly drawn por ... (read full critics)

    wbqonline published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Saved by the City of Angels

    James Frey's first foray into the world of books, his supposed autobiography A Million Little Pieces, was a spectacular debut in that it provoked that rarest of events: a genuine literary scandal. The book, and its follow-up My Friend Leonard, were g ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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    The book is about Los Angeles. Its countless people trying to achieve the American Dream. There are many characters in the book with the author focusing of several them in their quest to make it.

    Raw. Real. Compelling. Perfect rythm in the storytelling.

    The Hemingway of our times, James ... (continue)

    The book is about Los Angeles. Its countless people trying to achieve the American Dream. There are many characters in the book with the author focusing of several them in their quest to make it.

    Raw. Real. Compelling. Perfect rythm in the storytelling.

    The Hemingway of our times, James Frey writes with his guts and his heart.

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  • English Books
  • eBook 560 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1848541171
  • ISBN-13: 9781848541177
  • Publisher: John Murray
  • Pub date: Sep 04, 2008
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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