A bold and dazzling new story from the controversial creator of A Million Little Pieces.
'An absolute triumph of a novel' Guardian
'Compulsive' Independent
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.
It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees.
Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. 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.
Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.
'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 comeback of the decade . . . James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years' Irvine Welsh, Guardian
James Frey is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. His books
A Million Little Pieces,
My Friend Leonard,
Bright Shiny Morning and
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible have all been bestsellers around the world. He is married and lives in New York.
Über den Autor
James Frey is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is married and lives in New York.
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A glittering panorama of LA's sleazy underbelly by the controversial author of "A Million Little Pieces". Contains exclusive material that was thought too inflammatory for the US edition. 'Frey really can write. Brilliantly. And if you don't think so, f*** you.' "Evening Standard".
