In a sun-shadowed courtyard the girlpacks could buy huaraches/leather sandals (but never did) crafted onsite by a fabulous furry freak, fresh (seemingly) from the commune, or some commune or other, his adobified kittycorner wafting with that leather smell, biker leather smell (so the little girls they did guess) and when he got close to them and leered, they could subversively smell scary sexy bearded man smells, & triangulate from there. She was what, 12ish? The Village, as they once called it, had a profusion of bookstores (can ya imagine?) & head shops too, with bongs and mushroom-lettered blacklight posters, the whole deal steeped in that sexysubversive patchouli smell imported from beyond - the foggy subversive motherlode of the Haight. If Gwen was old when she conceived, now she was fucking old, an old broad old enough to remember the bookstore days. Her husband froze his sperm before being zapped for prostate cancer he succumbed, as they used to say, when his princess turned three, right on her birthday. Telma was conceived in vitro when Gwen was 44. Dead Stars moves forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, sweeping everyone in its fateful path. With its mix of imaginary and real-life characters, it is certain to be the most challenging, knowing, and controversial book of the year.
There is nothing quite like a Bruce Wagner novel. His prose is captivating and exuberant, and surprises with profound truths on spirituality, human nature, and redemption.
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At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world’s youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old Canadian who’s just undergone a mastectomy … Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant-teen porn online will help fulfill her dream of befriending Jennifer Lawrence and Kanye West … Biggie, the neurologically impaired adolescent son of a billionaire, spends his days Google Map-searching his mother-who abandoned home and family for a new love … Jacquie, a photographer once celebrated for taking arty nudes of her young daughter, is broke and working at Sears Family Portrait Boutique … Tom-Tom, a singer/drug dealer thrown off the third season of American Idol for concocting a hard-luck story, is hell-bent on creating her own TV series in the Hollywood Hills, peopled by other reality-show losers … Jerzy, her sometime lover, is a speed-freak paparazzo who “specializes” in capturing images of dying movie and television stars … And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning in his time of remission. While his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on Glee, the actor plans a bold, artistic, go-for-broke move: to star in and direct a remake of Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz…
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