I'm Losing You: A Novel - Softcover

Wagner, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452299047 ISBN 13: 9780452299047

Publisher: Plume, 2012

Synopsis

“A writer without mercy . . . this book is like a wire stretched across the throat.” —Oliver Stone

In an epic novel 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.  Wagner, author of the novel Dead Stars, examines the psychological complexities of Hollywood reality and fantasy, soaring far beyond the reaches of Robert Stone's Children of Light and Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust.

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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.

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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: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0452299047
• ISBN 13: 9780452299047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336