Bright Shiny Morning Intl - Couverture souple

Frey, James

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9780061649479: Bright Shiny Morning Intl

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ISBN 10 : 0061649473 ISBN 13 : 9780061649479

Editeur : Harpercollins, 2008

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Revue de presse :

'It's a book that smacks of grandiosity, is exasperating but engrossing and, despite its oddities of punctuation and bleak minimalist style, is a riveting read' (New Books)

'Sprawling as the city itself, and shows the flipside to the American dream' (GQ)

An immaculately written novel about a kaleidoscope of characters living in LA (Tatler)

'At 500 pages, it is totally gripping throughout -- Frey may have upset a few people, but who cares when he writes like this?' (Bookseller)

'Frey clearly has a knack for telling tales - this story of interweaving, never-meeting strangers in LA is an engrossing read' (The Times)

'Its absorbing narrative confirms Frey as a master storyteller' (Gay Times)

'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' (Yorkshire Evening Post)

Bright Shiny Morning reads quickly, has great dialogue and some expertly dramatic moments, teaches you more about L.A than you ever knew (Washington Post)

'A sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces' (Vanity Fair)

'An absolute triumph of a novel. In fact it's so good that it makes Frey's real-life resurrection from crooked biographer to great American novelist far more impressive ... Frey, a natural novelist to his fingertips, hits the deeper truths with this honest, vibrant and tender portrait of Los Angeles and the American dream ...It can be no exaggeration to say that Bright Shiny Morning amounts to the literary come-back of the decade ... James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years' (Irvine Welsh, Guardian)

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

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.

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