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Bright Shiny Morning
Bright Shiny Morning | James Frey
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One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novela sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight linessome never to be seen againbut James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home. Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.
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This book stays with you and has for many years. There are multiple stories you follow throughout all with their own heartache, disappointment, sadness, anger and joy that raise the same in you. Many characters you'll want to get back to as quick as you can whilst others you want to leave but still can't help but want to know. An original look at human life.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost." I really fell in love with the different story lines and characters in this book.

GoldenGirl I fell in love with James Frey after A Million Little Pieces. This book did not disappoint! Loved every character, every story. 8y
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