I'm Losing You - Softcover

Wagner, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452278686 ISBN 13: 9780452278684

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

One of the most talked about, critically acclaimed books -- a savagely poetic meditation on love, death and cellular phones.Each decade brings a great Hollywood novel, one breathtaking in its scope and originality, a story that captures the soul of its time. As the millennium approaches, that novel is Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing You.Chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, I'm Losing You is set in a land of H.I.V.I.Ps, porn stars in love, scheming dermatologists, and cell-phone conversations that never connect. It is a place of celebrity chore-whores, masseurs, traitorous shrinks, syphilitic cantors, sightless children, and dying men who wear $400,000 watches. It's Hollywood, cordless and unplugged -- where the two most-heard comments are "I'm losing you..". and "I'll let you go".With a sensibility that calls to mind Nashville (set in Tinseltown, as told by Virgil) -- from the prying eyes of Hard Copy to the babbling cellular matrix of darkest night -- Bruce Wagner charts the morbidity and mortality of a culture's current affairs, depicting the national obsession with fame and fortune -- truth and consequence -- as never before.

About this title

About the Author

Bruce Wagner is the author of the novels Dead Stars, Force Majeure, and I'm Losing You. He also wrote and directed Women in Film, adapted from I'm Losing You, which premiered at the Sundance and Venice film festivals. He lives in Los Angeles.

Synopsis

A novel set in Hollywood brings together an offbeat crew that includes porn stars in love, scheming dermatologists, celebrity chore-whores, masseurs, traitorous shrinks, and sightless children, among others, in a glittering world of decadence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0452278686
• ISBN 13: 9780452278684
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336