{"product_id":"9781439129678","title":"Still Holding","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIf there's an even darker side to Hollywood than the one America is familiar with, Bruce Wagner has found it. A twenty-first-century Nathanael West, he has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, in each of his novels, dissected and sometimes disemboweled Hollywood excess.\u003cp\u003eNow, in his most ambitious book to date, \u003ci\u003eStill Holding,\u003c\/i\u003e the third in the Cellular Trilogy that began with \u003ci\u003eI'm Losing You\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI'll Let You Go,\u003c\/i\u003e Wagner immerses readers in post-September 11 Hollywood, revealing as much rabid ambition, rampant narcissism, and unchecked mental illness as ever. It is a scabrous, epiphanic, sometimes horrifying portrait of an entangled community of legitimate stars, delusional wanna-bes, and psychosociopaths. Wagner infiltrates the gilded life of a superstar actor\/sex symbol\/practicing Buddhist, the compromised world of a young actress whose big break comes when she's hired to play a corpse on \u003ci\u003eSix Feet Under,\u003c\/i\u003e and the strange parallel universe of look-alikes -- an entire industry in which struggling actors are hired out for parties and conventions to play their famous counterparts. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, ferocious and empathetic, \u003ci\u003eStill Holding\u003c\/i\u003e is Bruce Wagner's most expertly calibrated work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154737348848,"sku":"9781439129678","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439129678_p0.jpg?v=1763756078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439129678","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}