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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, February 2005
Trade Paperback, 480 pages
ISBN-10: 0743268962
ISBN-13: 9780743268967
Description
Bud Wiggins dreamed of achieving fame as a screenwriter. He almost made it. Instead, he finds himself free-falling through a world of hallucinatory absurdity, low comedy, and epic degradation. A Hollywood bottom-feeder who moonlights as a limo driver to pay the bills, both tormented and vicariously aroused by his contact with the industry's elite, Mr. Wiggins bears poignant, paranoid witness to the horror and hysteria that are by-products of "the Business." His phantasmagoric saga, by turns picaresque, pornographic, and poetic, Force Majeure is the first of a projected quartet called "Scriptures" that will chronicle the misadventures and transcendental fall and rise -- comic, tragic, and tragicosmic -- of Bud Wiggins, Quixote of Babylon.
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Browse Inside Force Majeure"As knowing a novel of late-twentieth-century Hollywood as one is likely to encounter, brilliantly detailed and remorselessly funny. Mr. Wagner is a major talent."
-- William Gibson
"One of the most memorable recent novels of any kind...I'd even go so far as to say that Wagner surpasses, in at least one respect, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby Stories, which until now was for me (along with Nathanael West's Day of the Locust), the ultimate Hollywood fiction."
-- Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer
"Wagner is a gifted writer with a canny sensibility loosed among the palms....Unerringly Wagner details the nightmarish triple-think and paranoid symbology of every Hollywood transaction."
-- The Washington Post
"A smashing debut novel...this is superb stuff -- the best yet about Hollywood's humiliated lower orders as they grasp at recovery programs or head for high-priced mental farms. [A] richly done boffo winner."
-- Kirkus Reviews
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