Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life - Gerald Martin
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitudeand Love in a Time of Cholera.
Central concerns will be the rags to riches element of Garcia Marquez’s story, the tension in his life between celebrity and literary quality, between politics and writing and between power, solitude [...]
Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
James Frey’s first novel Bright Shiny Morning is hurtling up the Australian bestseller list.
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees.
Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey’s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.
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