{"product_id":"9780061795640","title":"Bright Shiny Morning","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDozens 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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, \u003cem\u003eBright Shiny Morning\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107601367280,"sku":"9780061795640","price":13.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061795640_p0.jpg?v=1763622052","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061795640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}