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Bright Shiny Morning
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James Frey
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Product Details
- Author: James Frey
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- Binding: Hardcover
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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- EAN: 9780061573132
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- ISBN: 0061573132
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- Label: Harper
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- Manufacturer: Harper
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 512
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 2008-05-01
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- Publisher: Harper
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- Release Date: 2008-05-13
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- Studio: Harper
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- Title: Bright Shiny Morning
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Product Description: 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.
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Customer Reviews
A Novel Like No Other
A Novel Like No Other...As a frequent lurker, but never a writer of Amazon's reviews,I cannot get this book out of my mind. Yes, he's controversial, yes, the writing is different, but as someone who has a Master's degree in American Lit, I can think of few great authors of their day who did not stir the some controversy. This is truly an exceptional piece of writing...the ending left my speechless and haunted three days after it ended. I found myself reading quickly in the beginning and middle, but during the last hundred pages, I slowed down because I did not want it to end. I also thoroughly enjoyed his first two works, but again, this novel is an entirely different animal...book clubs pay attention..this is a great pick....FANTASTIC!!
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Fantastic Book!!!
Once I started this book, I couldn't put it down. Frey's writing style is fresh, unique and addictive. His characters suck you in and his facts about Los Angeles are great. Anyone who likes reading books that evoke real emotions and that are innovative should read this novel. One of the best i've read in a long time.
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Interesting
500 pages-read it in 2 days. Story about LA and some of the people living there. An entertaining read.
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Jackie Collins anyone....?
This book is like a Jackie Collins novel. A little dose of suspense, thin characters, really awful dialogue, and lots & lots of cliched stereotypes. The story line about the famous couple is the absolute worst. Honest to god, it's PURE Jackie Collins. To be fair, I'm only 3/4 of the way through, but I'm guessing it doesn't get much better. I liked his first book (can't remember the name) and couldn't give a rats bum that it was made up. Good writing is good writing in my opinion. But this book....ugh, this book is really bad. Also, I live in LA, and his portrait of the city is ridiculous. Some of it is true (his description of the traffic & freeways and struggling actors are particularly accurate), but most of it so exaggerated and some of it is just downright inaccurate. The only good thing about the book is the cover art. I thought it was lovely.
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Satisfied
I bought this book for my daughter. She said she liked the book very much.
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