Force Majeure - Softcover

Wagner, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312092903 ISBN 13: 9780312092900

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1993

Synopsis

Denied success as a screenwriter, Bud Wiggins finds himself travelling through the seedier side of Hollywood, observing the world of absurdity, horrors, and mysteries. By the author of Wild Palms. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"As knowing a novel of late-twentieth-century Hollywood as one is likely to encounter, brilliantly detailed and remorselessly funny. Mr. Wagner is a major talent."
-- William Gibson

"One of the most memorable recent novels of any kind...I'd even go so far as to say that Wagner surpasses, in at least one respect, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby Stories, which until now was for me (along with Nathanael West's Day of the Locust), the ultimate Hollywood fiction."
-- Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer

"Wagner is a gifted writer with a canny sensibility loosed among the palms....Unerringly Wagner details the nightmarish triple-think and paranoid symbology of every Hollywood transaction."
-- The Washington Post

"A smashing debut novel...this is superb stuff -- the best yet about Hollywood's humiliated lower orders as they grasp at recovery programs or head for high-priced mental farms. [A] richly done boffo winner."
-- Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Bruce Wagner is the author of The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist); Still Holding; I'll Let You Go (a PEN USA fiction award finalist); I'm Losing You; and Force Majeure. He lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0312092903
• ISBN 13: 9780312092900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 469