| Still Holding Contributor(s): Wagner, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743243382 ISBN-13: 9780743243384 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: In "blazing, high-speed prose" (Salman Rushdie), Wagner presides over a tangled collection of stars, celebrity wannabes, and sociopaths as he offers a scathing novel of a Hollywood adrift in unchecked ambition and unbridled excess. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.86" W x 8.28" (0.78 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Cultural Region - Southern California |
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| Publisher Description: Bruce Wagner has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, in each of his novels, dissected and sometimes disemboweled Hollywood excess. In his most ambitious book to date, Still Holding, Wagner immerses readers in post-September 11 Hollywood, revealing as much rabid ambition, rampant narcissism, and unchecked mental illness as ever. He infiltrates the gilded life of a superstar actor/sex symbol/practicing Buddhist, the compromised world of a young actress whose big break comes when she's hired to play a corpse on Six Feet Under, and the strange parallel universe of look-alikes -- an entire industry in which struggling actors are hired out for parties and conventions to play their famous counterparts. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, ferocious and empathetic, Still Holding is Bruce Wagner's most expertly calibrated wor |
Contributor Bio(s): Wagner, Bruce: - Bruce Wagner is the author of The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist); Still Holding; I'll Let You Go (a PEN USA fiction award finalist); I'm Losing You; and Force Majeure. He lives in Los Angeles. |