I Met Someone: A Novel - Hardcover

Bruce Wagner

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99 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399159363 ISBN 13: 9780399159367

Publisher: Blue Rider Press, 2016

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Bruce Wagner's I Met Someone is the story of Oscar award-winning actress Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter and the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamor of their lavish, carefully calibrated, celebrity life.

After Allegra suffers a miscarriage, Dusty embarks on a search for the daughter she lost at age 16 and uncovers the answer to a question that has haunted for decades. With riveting suspense, Wagner moves between the perspectives of his characters, revealing their individual trauma and the uncanny connections to each other's past lives.

I Met Someone>/i> sends the reader down a rabbit hole of the human psyche, with Wagner's remarkable insights into our collective obsession with great wealth and fame, and surprises with unimaginable plot turns and unexpected fate. Alternately tender, shocking and poetic, I Met Someone is Wagner's most captivating and affecting novel yet.

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The deepening trajectory of Wagner s work is truly breathtaking; reading "I Met Someone "is like experiencing an as-yet-undiscovered prayer charting our desperate, funny, wrenching, and wholly necessary struggle to find meaning within the world and connection with each other. I was altered by it. Steven Soderbergh
Funny and tragic in equal measure, Bruce Wagner tells a beautifully American story about the desperate hunt for fame and love. Sherman Alexie"

""I Met Someone"sneaks inside the palace walls to tell the story of a middle-aged actress of Meryl Streep-level renown....a shock revelation [transforms] the book into an updated Greek tragedy....The Greeks wrote their tragedies about kings and queens, and this curious novel positions the mega-famous as our modern day royalty."
" Wall Street Journal"
The deepening trajectory of Wagner s work is truly breathtaking; reading "I Met Someone "is like experiencing an as-yet-undiscovered prayer charting our desperate, funny, wrenching, and wholly necessary struggle to find meaning within the world and connection with each other. I was altered by it.
Steven Soderbergh
Funny and tragic in equal measure, Bruce Wagner tells a beautifully American story about the desperate hunt for fame and love.
Sherman Alexie"

"I Met Someonesneaks inside the palace walls to tell the story of a middle-aged actress of Meryl Streep-level renown....a shock revelation [transforms] the book into an updated Greek tragedy....The Greeks wrote their tragedies about kings and queens, and this curious novel positions the mega-famous as our modern day royalty."
Wall Street Journal
The deepening trajectory of Wagner s work is truly breathtaking; reading I Met Someone is like experiencing an as-yet-undiscovered prayer charting our desperate, funny, wrenching, and wholly necessary struggle to find meaning within the world and connection with each other. I was altered by it.
Steven Soderbergh
Funny and tragic in equal measure, Bruce Wagner tells a beautifully American story about the desperate hunt for fame and love.
Sherman Alexie"

"I Met Someone sneaks inside the palace walls to tell the story of a middle-aged actress of Meryl Streep-level renown....a shock revelation [transforms] the book into an updated Greek tragedy....The Greeks wrote their tragedies about kings and queens, and this curious novel positions the mega-famous as our modern day royalty."
--Wall Street Journal

"The deepening trajectory of Wagner's work is truly breathtaking; reading I Met Someone is like experiencing an as-yet-undiscovered prayer charting our desperate, funny, wrenching, and wholly necessary struggle to find meaning within the world and connection with each other. I was altered by it."
--Steven Soderbergh

"Funny and tragic in equal measure, Bruce Wagner tells a beautifully American story about the desperate hunt for fame and love."
--Sherman Alexie

About the Author:

Bruce Wagner is the author of The Empty Chair (Blue Rider Press, 2012), Dead Stars (Blue Rider Press, 2012), Memorial (Simon & Schuster, 2006), The Chrysanthemum Palace (Simon & Schuster, 2005, a PEN/Faulkner fiction award finalist), Still Holding (Simon & Schuster, 2003), I'll Let You Go (Random House, 2001), I'm Losing You (Plume, 1992) and Force Majeure (Simon & Schuster, 1991). He wrote the acclaimed miniseries Wild Palms (ABC, 1993, based on his graphic novel) and Maps to the Stars (Entertainment 1, 2014), directed by David Cronenberg. Wagner lives in Los Angeles.

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