Dead Stars A Novel Author:Bruce Wagner ?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?. Reeyon... more »na 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.« less
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