false 73308590 26356 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 2074 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 40372 6720 1969 0 0 false Sat Oct 03 10:22:12 -0700 2009 Fri Dec 11 15:42:11 -0800 2009