{"product_id":"dead-stars-9780142196878","title":"Dead Stars","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eDead Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eLondon Fields\u003c\/i\u003e of Los Angeles, the \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e of TMZ culture--an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither.\"--Tom Bissell, \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world's youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who's just undergone a mastectomy.... Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending Kanye West.... Jackie, a photographer once celebrated for arty nudes of her young daughter, is working at a Sears Family Portrait boutique.... And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning while his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on \u003ci\u003eGlee\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, \u003ci\u003eDead Stars\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Wagner\u003c\/b\u003e is a screenwriter and the author of several books, including\u003ci\u003e Dead Stars, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eI'm Losing You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chrysanthemum Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStill Holding\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872455954706,"sku":"9780142196878","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_73a791ab-703b-471b-a158-97fd694fa83c.jpg?v=1737898238","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-stars-9780142196878","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}