One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers hisfirst novela sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is boldexhilarating... » 

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers hisfirst novela sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is boldexhilarating and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across thereaders sight linessome never to be seen againbut James Frey lingers on ahandful of LAs lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their livesa bright ambitious young MexicanAmerican woman who allows her future to beundone by a moment of searing humiliation a supremely narcissistic actionmovie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearlydestroys him a couple both nineteen years old who flee their suffocatinghometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city and an agingVenice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a methaddledteenage girl shows up halfdead outside the restroom he calls home. Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat ofthe millions of other stories that taken as a whole describe a city aculture and an age. A dazzling tour de force Bright Shiny Morningilluminates the joys horrors and unexpected fortunes of life and death in LosAngeles. «