Bright Shiny Morning LP

#1 National Bestseller“A sprawling ambitious novel about Los Angeles written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical tense and surprisingly touching it is a portrait of a city onto which so many millions have projected so many dreams. . . . Compelling cinematic. . . . It achieves the very essence of Los Angeles’s fractured unpredictable loopy nature.”  — Vanity Fair“A captivating urban kaleidoscope. . . . James Frey got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park. . . . He became a furiously good storyteller.” —Janet Maslin New York TimesOne of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold exhilarating and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through 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 dazzling tour de force Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys horrors and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.