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Dead Stars|Bruce Wagner

Overview

"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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142196878
  • ISBN-10: 0142196878
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: July 2013
  • Dimensions: 8.43 x 5.49 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
  • Page Count: 656
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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