{"product_id":"force-majeure-by-bruce-wagner-9781648210532","title":"Force Majeure","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForce Majeure\u003c\/i\u003e was called a \"smashing debut novel\" by \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWagner 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455564824812,"sku":"9781648210532","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81KZ_5J11cL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774783481","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/force-majeure-by-bruce-wagner-9781648210532","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}