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Title: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0-452-27868-6 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I'm Losing You
Comment: Oops . . . Mr. Wagner dropped the ball after an early promising start. His prose is so dense you need a knife to hack you way through. Skip it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Intermittently powerful ... utterly repellent
Comment: From the raves garnered for this book and his latest release, "I'll Let You Go", I was intent from the first page on really liking this book. I came away disturbed and baffled more than anything else ... and slightly nauseous.
Wagner certainly is a prodigious talent. His dialogue flies off the page, and his characters, though a rather unlikeable lot, manage to convey a certain pathos that is truly revealing. I might even venture to say I was surprisingly moved by the ending. Unfortunately, though, Wagner comes off as a more impressive stylist than storyteller. As a result, the narrative tends to drift and gets lost amid virtuoustic and occasionally tangential verbiage. One particular complaint is that I often lost track of the characters themselves and how they were inter-related.
This is not - and I repeat NOT - a novel for everyone. It requires a strong stomach and an open mind. Some of Wagner's descriptions border on the pornographic, and occasionally seem to push the envelope just for the sake of shock value.
Still, there is quite a bit to admire here, and if one can get past the fact that these characters are - for the most part - utterly unredeemable, and the plot a bit unfocused, you are in for quite a read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great hollywood novel w/black humor, inventive narration
Comment: It's a novel set in present day Hollywood, but instead of focusing on Hollywood stars, Wagner looks at the hangers-on types, the agents, lawyers, doctors, massage therapists, etc. It's definitely black humor, as a lot of unfortunate things happen to the characters, but it's definitely worth reading.
The multiple pov is quite interesting. In the first section, Wagner focuses on 4 or 5 characters, and quickly switches the POV between each one in a rapid succession. One character is an exterminator, the other an agent, the next one an aging starlet, and the next a dermatologist. My favorite is the exterminator, the Dead Pet Detective, who longs to write scripts for a Star Trek like TV show called "Blue Matrix". His mother is a psychologist, Calliope, who only treats celebrities, one of whom is a Blue Matrix star.
The second section is even more interesting: it's told from multiple narrators, each of whom are women. A different set of characters who you saw through a different perspective earlier. One is a screenwriter writing e-mail to her lesbian lover, another is a producer dictating into a microphone (much like Julia Philips in You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again), still another is a massage therapist writing in her diary titled "The Thief of Energy". These characters have an effect on each other's lives which is not immediately apparent until the end when things all come together.
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Title: I'll Let You Go : A Novel by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0812968476 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Still Holding : A Novel of Hollywood by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0743243374 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Other Side of Mulholland : A Novel by Stephen Randall ISBN: 0312288670 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: ON SPEC : A Novel of Young Hollywood by Richard Rushfield ISBN: 0312242263 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1573228184 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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