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Praise for Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing you
"[Wagner] writes like a wizard. . . . His prose writhes and coruscates." --John Updike, The New Yorker
"Ferocious acuity. Outrageous. . . . Dead-on in every way." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Superb. . . . The author's images, tones, and language give I'm Losing You a hard beauty that glints like black crystal." --Time
"The year's best book."--Walter Kirn, New York magazine
"One of the year's most notorious books. . . . A must-read."--Entertainment Weekly
"Ruthlessly hip and very funny."--Wired
"Wagner's latest novel makes all other Hollywood satires Capraesque in their innocence."--Will Self
"Edgy, sublime."--New York Newsday
"Mr. Wagner . . . treats us to many glorious phrases and whole passages that have the self-propelled rhythm of great prose."--Adam Begley, The New York Observer
Virtuosic . . . [attests] not only to Mr. Wagner's range as a writer--his ability to write with affecting sincerity as well as satiric glee--but also to his power as a storyteller to beguile." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"Lavishly imagined . . . Wagner [dares] his readers to be so callous as to question fiction's ability to imagine the impossible.""--The Boston Globe"
"Wagner's astute portrayal of the follies of the rich is exceeded by his skill at rendering the lives of the poor. The chapters on Amaryllis . . . are worthy of a latter-day Dickens."--"The Washington Post"
"Brilliant, inventive, and entertaining . . . a rip-roaring, special-effects-filled ride." --"New York"
"Combines social satire on the scale of Thackeray's Vanity Fair with a hipness that has become Wagner's trademark." --"GQ"
"A brash authorial voice . . . tinged with melancholy . . . a sincere exploration of life, death and immortality."--"People"
Virtuosic . . . [attests] not only to Mr. Wagner s range as a writer his ability to write with affecting sincerity as well as satiric glee but also to his power as a storyteller to beguile. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Lavishly imagined . . . Wagner [dares] his readers to be so callous as to question fiction s ability to imagine the impossible. The Boston Globe
Wagner s astute portrayal of the follies of the rich is exceeded by his skill at rendering the lives of the poor. The chapters on Amaryllis . . . are worthy of a latter-day Dickens. The Washington Post
Brilliant, inventive, and entertaining . . . a rip-roaring, special-effects-filled ride. New York
Combines social satire on the scale of Thackeray s Vanity Fair with a hipness that has become Wagner s trademark. GQ
A brash authorial voice . . . tinged with melancholy . . . a sincere exploration of life, death and immortality. People"
Reseña del editor:
The lives of twelve-year-old Toulouse "Tull" Trotter" and his fabulously wealthy family mysteriously intertwines those of the poor orphan Amaryllis and the homeless schizophrenic who protects her, in a moving, acerbic new novel by the author of I'm Losing You. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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