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Force Majeure
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Force Majeure was called a "smashing debut novel" by Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. It offers a sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the "business as usual" of Hollywood's twisted class system, proving Bruce Wagner to be not just an author,...
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Hollywood’s twisted class system that proved Bruce Wagner was not just an author, but a cultural anthropologist.
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Force Majeure was called a "smashing debut novel" by Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. It offers a sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the "business as usual" of Hollywood's twisted class system, proving Bruce Wagner to be not just an author, but a cultural anthropologist.
The perpetually up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter, Bud Wiggins, drifts aimlessly in and out of the lives of others and from one script idea to another. Moonlighting as a limo driver to pay his bills, he finds himself immersed in a world of vanity and degradation.
Wagner infuses his novel with familiar archetypical characters of Hollywood—a nihilistic producer, an aging film star, an obnoxious mogul—and exposes the madness that drives them all.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781648210532
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 January 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 41.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 544g
Pages: 576
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About the Author
Bruce Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the famous "Cellphone Trilogy," I'm Losing You (PEN USA finalist), I'll Let You Go and Still Holding), Dead Stars, The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-finalistChrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg's film Maps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-series Wild Palms for producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons the acclaimed Tracey Ullman'sState of the Union. He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker.
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