| Dead Stars Contributor(s): Wagner, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142196878 ISBN-13: 9780142196878 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.49" W x 8.43" (1.15 lbs) 656 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Dead Stars is the London Fields of Los Angeles, the Ulysses of TMZ culture--an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither."--Tom Bissell, GQ 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 Glee. Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, Dead Stars 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. |