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New York Times best-selling author Bruce Wagner is also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and a notable contributor to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. With Dead Stars, Wagner delivers uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex- and money-obsessed world of Hollywood through the story of Telma, a 13-year-old girl who's also the world's youngest breast cancer survivor. A regular at pink-tie charity events and private lunches, Telma has come to enjoy her fame-so she's not pleased to learn another young girl is about to break her record.
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"This is the Internet/pop culture wrote a book, this would be it. It was stomach churning & amazing. I was equally disgusted, yet curious. I couldn't stop reading it.This exactly what pop culture in 2012 is."
— Lety (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Wagner’s prose reads like the lovechild of Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace…The most enjoyable riffs in Dead Stars display Wagner’s up-to-the-nanosecond insider’s knowledge of the LA scene…He also writes some clean, mean, glittery dialogue.”
— Washington Post -
“Not just the best novel about Americans and fame of the past dozen years but the best since Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust.”
— Wall Street Journal -
“There are few writers capable of escorting us more convincingly into a character’s tender, gnarled mind. Dead Stars, easily Wagner’s best and most ambitious novel yet, is a huge, riveting book…every page contains something statically electric enough to scorch the hair from your arms.”
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“Written in hyper-hilarious, brilliant prose, [Dead Stars] renders an obsessive pop-culture nightmare of surprising realism and light, illuminating the meanest corners of its characters’—and our culture’s—desperation.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Dead Stars Listener Reviews
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" I do like Bruce Wagner's past work, but this just didn't do it for me... it made its point well within 100 pages in - the rest is pretty much flogging a dead horse. "
— Robert, 12/26/2013 -
" Couldn't do it. Quit at page 60. "
— Drew, 12/22/2013 -
" four chapters in - I had to put it down - just didn't understand what was going on - maybe you have to be a tweeter to understand "
— Chris, 11/26/2013 -
" Prose burns at times like the best. Interesting book that will make you blush at times, with some unique logic threads and many characters you will not warm yourself to. "
— Harley, 10/23/2013 -
" Brilliant critique of celebrity and youth-obsessed culture, without being moralistic or boring...and one of the funniest novels I've ever read. "
— Emily, 10/14/2013 -
" this book was bonkers. 2.5 stars. "
— Kate, 9/7/2013 -
" An over-long examination of contemporary American celebrity-based culture. At times razor sharp and laugh-out-loud funny, the characters, situations, and writing are not compelling or interesting enough to sustain the 600+ pages. Could have been more effective at half the length. "
— Jason, 6/16/2013 -
" Couldn't finish it. It was awful "
— Carrie, 4/16/2013 -
" Brilliant, quirky, and complex novel centering on the request for celebrity. "
— Arthur, 3/28/2013 -
" Too much stream of conscienceness, and too vulgar. Not my thing at all. "
— Randy, 1/11/2013