false 26666486 44537 2179832 0061573132 9780061573132 604 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/21/832/2179832-m-1255791970.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/21/832/2179832-s-1255791970.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2179832.Bright_Shiny_Morning 3.68 2075 Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines - some never to be seen again - but 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.]]> 822 3.53 40413 6724 1969 4 0 false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 12:06:08 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 13:09:35 -0700 2008