Force Majeure

Force Majeure

by Bruce Wagner (Author)

Synopsis

Bud Wiggins dreams of achieving fame as a screenwriter, and he almost made it. Now he finds himself free-falling through a world of absurdity and degradation. Surviving off the underbelly of Hollywood, moonlighting as a limo driver to pay the bills, and mingling sporadically with the industry's elite, Bud bears witness to the hilarity, horrors, mysteries and giddy paranoia of 'the Business'. Bruce Wagner's debut novel is a powerful black comedy that delivers readers to contemporary Hollywood's surreal fringes - a relentless and powerful saga that heralded the arrival of one of the most original and compelling writers working today.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Published: 20 Jun 2005

ISBN 10: 0743268962
ISBN 13: 9780743268967

Media Reviews
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