I'm Losing You - Softcover

Wagner, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452278686 ISBN 13: 9780452278684

Publisher: Plume, 1997

Synopsis

A novel set in Hollywood brings together a offbeat crew that includes porn stars in love, scheming dermatologists, celebrity chore-whores, masseurs, traitorous shrinks, and sightless children, among others, in a glittering world of decadence. Reprint.

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Review:

Screenwriter Bruce Wagner, writer for the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series and of the TV mini-series "White Palms," has set his second novel, like his first, Force Majeure, in the hip world with which he is intimate--Hollywood, as in Babylon writ large, a world of dreams shattered or grotesquely corrupted. Arranged in short sections, each written from the viewpoint of some 20 alternating characters, without a clear plot line, the book's style is as disorienting as the drug-dazed sexually abusive lifestyles of the players. Wagner pulls no punches in his descriptions of these pitiable losers and vile winners; indeed parts of the book are hard on the stomach. The book is unrelentingly powerful, and occasionally downright revolting.

From the Inside Flap:

ovel that does for Hollywood what Nashville did for Nashville, I'm Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and out as their lives intersect in a series of coincidences that exposes the "bigger than life" ferocity of Hollywood--and proves that Bruce Wagner is a talent to be reckoned with. "A writer without mercy . . . this book is like a wire stretched across the throat."--Oliver Stone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0452278686
• ISBN 13: 9780452278684
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336