Last Chance California by Brian Price
Are We All Doomed to Become Our Parents?
Terrified he's becoming just like his father, Wyatt Lewis, a disillusioned millennial, breaks up with his fianc e to chase his childhood dream - a fresh start in Southern California. Once in San Diego, Wyatt reunites with an old friend, Summer Harrison, while falling hard for the elusive and free-spirited, Leah Murphy. Summer and Leah show Wyatt a dazzling world littered with lavish speakeasies, egregious drug use, and overpriced cocktails. Surrounded by fake glamor and stuck in a terrible corporate job, Wyatt's escape quickly turns into his worst nightmare. Overworked, alone, and filled with regret, the aspiring writer spirals down a self-destructive path that forces him to confront the violent past he ran away to California to forget. In his raw, hilarious, and dark debut novel, Brian Price showcases our world, on the verge of the COVID-19 pandemic, through the eyes of a sarcastic and stubborn narrator as he attempts to drown his family's demons.
Brian Price is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, the author of Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics, and coeditor of Color, the Film Reader, and On Michael Haneke. He is also a founding coeditor of World Picture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781737719700 |
| ISBN 10 | 1737719703 |
| Title | Last Chance California |
| Author | Brian Price |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brian Versus the World, LLC |
| Year published | 2021-12-21 |
| Number of pages | 346 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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