Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel--a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original.

Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines--some never to be seen again--but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home.

Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.

James Frey, a quien Esquire llamo -el escritor mas importante de Estados Unidos- y The Guardian, -el mejor escritor de su generacion-, ha conseguido que sus novelas adultas (En mil pedazos, El ultimo testamento, Una manana radiante) fueran numero 1 en la lista de mas vendidos de The New York Times y se publicaran en 42 idiomas y 118 paises. Su incursion en la literatura juvenil, Soy el numero cuatro, tambien fue exito de ventas y fue adaptada a la pantalla grande. Ahora dirige Full Fathom Five, una compania dedicada a crear proyectos multimedia, de los que ha nacido Endgame, coescrito con Nils-Johnson-Shelton. / James Frey, whom Esquire called the greatest writer in America and named the best writer of his generation by The Guardian, has reached the number 1 position with his adult novels (In A Thousand Pieces, The Last Testament, A Radiant Morning) in the bestseller list of the New York Times and these have been published in 42 languages and 118 countries. His foray into children's literature, I Am Number Four, was also a bestseller and was adapted to the big screen. Now he directs Full Fathom Five, a company dedicated to creating multimedia projects, from which Endgame was born, co-written with Nils Johnson-Shelton.

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ISBN 13	9780061573132
ISBN 10	0061573132
Title	Bright Shiny Morning
Author	James Frey
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2008-05-13
Number of pages	512
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