Bright Shiny Morning
- Author: James Frey
- Narrator: Ben Foster
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 13:38:48
Synopsis
One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original.
Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home.
Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.
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Chapter 041
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Chapter 042
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Chapter 043
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Chapter 044
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Chapter 045
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Chapter 046
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Chapter 047
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Chapter 048
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Chapter 049
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Chapter 050
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Chapter 051
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Chapter 052
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Chapter 053
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Chapter 054
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Chapter 055
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Chapter 056
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Chapter 057
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Chapter 058
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Chapter 059
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Chapter 060
Duration: 11min