Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. 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 ...
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Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. 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.
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -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. -> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is John Murray The date of this copy is 2009 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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While the book was initially confusing because of the sheer number of characters he introduces in the beginning, I soon realized that Frey's intention in this novel was not to follow a conventional plot line, but was centered around a place rather than a specific person. This novel was centered around the theme of life in LA in the twentieth century. He explores its growth, what attracts people to it and what kind of people end up there. It does not disappoint if you have read his other work and, like myself, greatly enjoy his literary style. The flexibility in his plot allows him to tell four main stories at one, one of a Mexican-American girl working as a maid with large thighs and low self-confidence. Another of a successful film star named Amberton and life in and out of the public eye. A third is of Old Man Joe, a homeless man, infatuated by Chablis who sleeps in a bathroom. Finally, a young couple who have been each other's comforts and support from a young age as they deal with their abusive parents, they drive west.
Frey allows the reader to understand the city, become familiar with everyone from the hopelessly crushed, addicted and mentally unstable to those who seem on the opposite end of the spectrum, those with success - and all of the benefits and disadvantages that come with popularity and wealth. He presents LA mainly as a city of extremes, hopes, dreams and escapes.
I greatly enjoyed this book and think it is a terrific read.
