Bruce wagner books list of books by author bruce wagner. The book is built on a series of internal narrations, character snapshots that fall into a swift narrative line. Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, dead stars is bruce wagners most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Sep 17, 2012 read an excerpt from dead stars by bruce wagner, the next book you should read. An uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex and moneyobsessed world of hollywood through the story of telma, a yearold girl whos also the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor. With lindsay wagner, bruce boxleitner, robin thomas, robert prosky.
Traces the experiences of very young breast cancer survivor telma, who crosses paths with actor michael douglas during the latters efforts to achieve his professional dream against a backdrop of riotous hollywood culture. At age thirteen, telma is famous as the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a fouryearold. He wrote the acclaimed miniseries wild palms based on his graphic novel and maps to the stars, directed by david cronenberg. Aug 08, 2014 bruce wagner dead stars, who wrote david cronenbergs new film maps to the stars, turns flood lights on showbiz darkness. Dead stars, easily wagners best and most ambitious novel yet, is a huge, riveting book. Dead stars by bruce wagner wednesday, september 12. Dead stars by bruce wagner book discussion youtube. Bruce wagner is the author of the novels dead stars, force majeure, and im losing you. Dead stars moves forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, sweeping everyone in its fateful path. In 2014, david cronenberg directed wagners script, maps to the stars.
Download or read dead stars 2012 in pdf, epub formats. Bruce wagners novel dead stars doesnt understand what makes. At age thirteen, telma is famous as the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a fouryearold canadian whos just. He also wrote and directed women in film, adapted from im losing. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead.
Bruce wagner is a screenwriter and the author of several books, including dead stars, im losing you, memorial, the chrysanthemum palace, and. Dead stars, easily wagner s best and most ambitious novel yet, is a huge, riveting book. Jul 30, 20 moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, dead stars is bruce wagners most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Aug 10, 2012 there are passages in dead stars that throb with mr. Sep 11, 2012 bruce wagner is one of the best, and you should read all of his books posthaste. Bruce wagner, the american novelist, penned a very much controversial novel about the tinsel town called, dead stars featuring stardom with a violent background, provoking us to move foreword with its flow, no matter it doesnt really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
Bruce and i emailed back and forth about the genesis of dead stars, the legality of making michael douglas a protagonist, literary obscurity, fate, death, and carlos castaneda. If the book were just this virtuoso screed and unsparing. Bruce wagner audio books, best sellers, author bio. New york times bestselling author bruce wagner is also a penfaulkner award finalist and a notable contributor to the new yorker and vanity fair. What was your life like in the months before you began to work on dead. Bruce alan wagner born march 22, 1954 is an american novelist and screenwriter based in. With dead stars, wagner delivers uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex and moneyobsessed world of hollywood through the story of telma, a yearold girl whos also the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor. Aug 16, 2012 dead stars, a wicked satire hollywood, by bruce wagner.
Oct 15, 2012 acclaimed author bruce wagner reads from his new novel dead stars at st. Michiko kakutani of the new york times said of dead stars. With dead stars, wagner delivers uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex and moneyobsessed world of hollywood through the story of telma, a. Written in a hypercontemporary modeall facebook, youtube, and kardashians. Jul 30, 20 moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, dead stars is bruce wagner s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Tom bissell, gq at age thirteen, telma is famous as the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a fouryear. It starts with telma, a plucky adolescent whos not only the youngest breastcancer survivor ever. Dead stars by bruce wagner overdrive rakuten overdrive. Dead stars is bruce wagners most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Her boyfriend glen thinks shes crazy so joanna turns to her exboyfriend, peter. Dead stars is that world, in all its seamy, sordid splendor.
Wagner s fury at our toxic culture of commodification, passages that are grounded in a spider web of details harvested by his heat. Matt thorne compares bruce wagners hollywood novels with. Novelist and screenwriter bruce wagner has made a career out of eviscerating hollywood absurdity and pretension. Two years later he wrote scenes from the class struggle in beverly. Kindle store go search best sellers gift ideas new releases. This novel is all over the place, but it all comes down to this. I met someone by bruce wagner nook book ebook barnes. Bruce wagner is a novelist and a screenwriter from united states. Bruce wagners 2006 book memorial, about the monetary temptations of four members of a troubled family, was the best novel about americans and money of the young century.
Bruce wagner news newspapers books scholar jstor december 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dead stars. The book is built on a series of internal narrations, character snapshots. Download read dead stars 2012 by bruce wagner in pdf. Bruce wagner continues his hollywood topography in maps to. There are passages in dead stars that throb with mr. In those books, the dream vision of hollywood is so far off from the reality. Wagners fury at our toxic culture of commodification, passages that are grounded in a spider web of details harvested by his heat.
Bruce wagners dead stars digs into hollywood culture. He also wrote and directed women in film, adapted from im losing you, which premiered at. While not significantly different in style or content than his. But first, he must finish shooting a movie being financed by biggie, a rich.
Its called dead stars, and writing it helped save his life. He is currently published by blue rider press, an imprint at penguin random house. Dec 22, 20 bruce wagner is the author of dead stars, ill let you go, and the chrysanthemum palace. At age thirteen, telma is famous as the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor until. Join the book circle team as we surf bruce wagner s prose tsunami through the churning convolutions of a decadent cultures dreamlife and, ultimately, into the profoundly ambivalent reptile eye of death itself. See all books authored by bruce wagner, including dead stars, and force majeure, and more on thriftbooks. Best of all is the writing, the creation of words and smashups to capture the mess. Dead stars by bruce wagner book cover, description, publication history. Hats off to bruce wagner for this bravura performance. And affection is the very thing thats lacking in bruce wagner s dead stars, a gassy ramble of a novel that goes so far over the top it bends itself right back down to the bottom.
Tom bissell, gq at age thirteen, telma is famous as the worlds youngest breast cancer survivor. Acclaimed author bruce wagner reads from his new novel dead stars at st. Dead stars by bruce wagner 2012, hardcover for sale. Stomachturning, sickmaking, rancid, repugnant, repellent, squalid, odious, fetid, disgusting there is a thesaurus full of terms to describe the contents of bruce wagners willfully offensive new novel, dead stars. After having a near death experience joanna finds her life in constant danger. Bruce wagner bio, fact author, books, dead star, age, net. Dead stars is bruce wagner s im losing you most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Bruce wagner is the author of the empty chair, dead stars, memorial, the chrysanthemum palace a penfaulkner fiction award finalist, still holding, ill let you go, im losing you, and force majeure. Dead stars, brucewagner shop online for books in japan. Nov 09, 2012 new york times bestselling author bruce wagner is also a penfaulkner award finalist and a notable contributor to the new yorker and vanity fair. Bruce wagners wickedly funny dead stars digs into reality of celebrity life. He also wrote and directed women in film, adapted from im losing you, which premiered at the sundance and venice film festivals. Dead stars is bruce wagner s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Dead stars by bruce wagner paperback softback, 20 for.
Wagner has said that the script he wrote, based upon the stories protagonist a chauffeur named bud wiggins later became maps to the stars, the 2015 film directed by david cronenberg. Bruce wagner is a screenwriter and the author of several books, including dead stars, im losing you, memorial, the chrysanthemum palace, and still holding. Read an excerpt from dead stars by bruce wagner, the next. He wrote his first script in 1987 and that was the script of the horror movie a nightmare on elm street 3. Todays featured book is dead stars by bruce wagner. In his twenties, wagner began writing articles for magazines, and writing scripts. Dead stars book hillsborough county public library. His latest book, the empty chair, pairs two novellas about protagonists who stray from and return to. Jun 26, 2012 bruce wagner s new novel stars michael douglas, catherine zetajones, an 11yearold breast cancer survivor, and an american idol reject. Bruce wagner, the american novelist, penned a very much controversial novel about the tinsel town called, dead stars featuring stardom with a violent background, provoking us to.
He wondered if douglas got his c by being wayback viral throatstroked by papillomaseems like a person would have to go down on a boatload of broads to get hpv in the gullet well, do the math, if the actor scarfed half as much pussy as dimpled dad kirk. His most recent hollywood book, dead stars, is wagners best. Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, dead stars is bruce wagner s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist. Bruce wagner s dead stars digs into hollywood culture. Dead stars book burlington public library bibliocommons. More superficial innercharacter diatribes i have never read, yet sadly, the writing is truth. Publishing a novel in 2012 is a tricky proposition. Dead stars by bruce wagner book discussion by book.
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