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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061573132
ISBN: 0061573132
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Studio: Harper
Sales Rank: 3040
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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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I hate this book. I don't say this very often. I've read thousands of books in my life, from Burgess to Bradbury, from Starship Troopers to The Sun Also Rises. But I have never had cause to hate a book before. I truly despised Bright Shiny Morning. The feeling it left me with was disjointed despair. Imagine you are a kid in a classroom. The teacher asks you a question. You give the wrong answer. She smacks you on the head with a wooden ruler. You are asked another question. You're right ... Read More
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While maybe not 5-star material (it didn't change my life, give me a new perspective, or make me think about it for weeks after I finished) I found the novel entertaining. But more than that, it felt REAL to me. People can moan on and on again about cliches, but really, the reason they are cliches is because these things really happen! How many of us, if we can categorize ourselves in a few sentences would turn out sounding "cliche"?
I think there are three main categories of people ... Read More
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Simply put, I loved this book. It is a compulsive read that will hook you from page one. It is less a novel than a group of vignettes portraying the lives of several vastly different Los Angeles citizens. The main characters include a closeted-actor whose life is a lie, a young couple fleeing life in the Mid-west only to find that LA might not be the city of dreams they thought it would be, a homeless man struggling with an alcohol addiction, and a Hispanic cleaning lady who dreams of a better future. ... Read More
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I just read the last few pages (almost 500) of James Frey's newest book, 'Bright Shiny Morning', and I can't figure out what to say, or if words are even enough.
Never has a book, since 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower', have I been so incredibly moved by a novel. It's novels like these that tear your heart in half and sew it back together.
This novel has broken me in half. Reading it, I went through the most happiest of times, to the deepest sadness, to actually ... Read More
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This is honestly, 100% the best book I have ever read! There isnt one thing about it that I would change because it all worked together to even out the book and make it unforgetable... Rarely a book comes along that sticks in your head and you can never get it out... this book was that for me... It was so well written, in a high school creative writing project kind of way... It really made me feel like i understood the inner workings of LA... I finished the book several months ago and it is still stuck in ... Read More
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061573132
ISBN: 0061573132
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Studio: Harper
Sales Rank: 3040
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