Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey
A bold and dazzling story from the controversial creator of A Million Little Pieces.
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.
Format: Paperback | 560 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 3.8 | 698g
Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008
Publisher: Hachette UK
Imprint: John Murray Publishers
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1848540446
ISBN13: 9781848540446
Condition: Acceptable
A book with obvious wear. Has some obvious damage to the cover, including a fair amount of creasing and scuff marks, but integrity still intact. No writing in margins, no underlining or highlighting of text. There's some minor wrinkling and creasing, mostly on the beginning and the end pages, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. Old and aged, with obvious wear, but still a clean, solid and readable copy.