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Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick : A Novel of Separation
Go West Young FckedUp Chick A Novel of Separation
Author: Rachel Resnick
"I had a brief job on a TV Movie. "I answered the phone, 'Infidelity, may I help you?' Infidelity was the name of the movie. Guess what it was about. There was one man who called often...after a few weeks, he confessed he would call, then put my 'Infidelity, may I help you?' on a speakerphone that was wired to an intercom. Everyone in the stu...  more » A High-Octane Joyride Through Hell, Hollywood-style. "Bravely bizarre and splintered as a mosaic, like pieces of Bruce Wagner and Nathanael West glued into a window sunlit with despair," says Kirkus Reviews. Rebecca Roth blows the Northeast, fleeing the ghost of her dead mother. Dreaming of fame as a filmmaker, hungry for love and sex, Rebecca drives to Edge City L.A., where, still haunted, her dreams mutate into nightmares. Hilarious, heart-blisteringly disastrous love affairs and degrading film jobs, encounters with stars and transients, a midget stuntwoman, a sacrificial cow. With relentlessly cinematic, jarring, and alluring prose straight out of the Hollywood wasteland, Rachel Resnick captures the bleak scene of "glamorous" L.A. with dizzying grace.
ISBN-13: 9780312198893
ISBN-10: 0312198892
Publication Date: 4/1999
Pages: 250
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Publisher: St Martins Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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