Bruce Wagner

• Aug-1991
• / General Fiction
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Force Majeure was called a “smashing debut novel” by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the “business as usual” of Hollywood’s twisted class system that proved Bruce...

• Jul-1996
• / General Fiction
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Each decade brings a great Hollywood novel, startling in its scope and originality, a story that captures the soul of its time. As the millennium approaches, that novel is Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing You. It is a land of H.I.V.I.P.s, porn stars in lov...

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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 Twelve-year-old Toulouse “Tull” Trotter lives with his grandfather on a vast Bel-Air parkland estate and spends most of his time with young cousins Lucy, “the girl detective,” and Edward, a prodigy who was born disfigured by the effects...

• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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If there's an even darker side to Hollywood than the one America is familiar with, Bruce Wagner has found it. A twenty-first-century Nathanael West, he has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, i...

• Feb-2005
• / Literary
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The Chrysanthemum Palace introduces Bertie Krohn, the only child of Perry Krohn, creator of TV's longest running space opera, Starwatch: The Navigators (which counts Jennifer Aniston and Donald Rumsfeld among its obsessed fans). Bertie recounts the s...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Joan Herlihy is a semi-successful architect grasping at the illustrious commission that will catapult her to international renown, glossy decor magazines, and the luxe condo designs of Meier, Koolhaas, and Hadid: the incestuous cult of contemporary S...

• Aug-2012
• / Literary
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Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner’s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic. At a...

• Jan-2014
• / Literary
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Composed of two companion novellas, "The Empty Chair" is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as "Dead Stars, I'm Losing You" and "Force Majeure." In "F...

• Jan-2015
• / Literary
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A profound and heart-wrenching work of spiritual storytelling from the internationally acclaimed author of DEAD STARS Celebrated for his “up-to-the-nanosecond insider’s knowledge of the L.A. scene” (The Washington Post), Bruce Wagner takes ...

• Mar-2016
• / General Fiction
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I Met Someone is the story of Academy Award-winning actress Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter, and the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamour of their lavish, carefully calibrated celebrity life. After Allegra suffers a mis...

• Jan-2018
• / Fantasy
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A Dragon Story is a book about a young dragon named Theo. He and his friends find adventure and humor in the strangest of places. Through their adventure they learn about friendship, fun, and growing up. But when a new sinister figure is discovered, ...

• Nov-2022
• / Literary
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A new novel by Hollywood’s "master of satire."The myth of an epic, public life -- its triumphs and tragedies -- is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and com...

• Jun-2024
• / Literary
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The sacred and the profane come together with visceral force in two novellas by Bruce Wagner, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers.The Met Gala follows a prominent family of influencers and would-be philanthropic socialites in the...

• Dec-2024
• / Literary
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"In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book." �"David Cronenberg  Originally Published under the name Sarah Sparrow, Bruce Wagner's A ...