![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In tales of rare wit and verve, Christine Schutt leads us into the lives of her perfectly drawn characters - couples young and old, children, skinny men, charming women - and dances on masterful prose through gardens, alcohol (often too much), luxurious homes, and resort vacation spots. `A truly gifted writer.' George Saunders - `Pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and eerily beautiful' John Ashbery - `Pure Hollywood is pure gold. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects. 'On the beach, they agreed, their daydreaming was sometimes dangerous.' Schutt's sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives are shot through with surprise and, as Ottessa Moshfegh has it, 'exquisitely weird writing'. A newly-wed couple who, while still 'newly everything', fall in with a misanthropic painter burned by love. In an exclusive island resort, a young family's holiday has terrible consequences. An alcoholic actress takes her children to live in 'a rusted box on stilts' in the desert. In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of longing and danger. With Pure Hollywood, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career. ![]()
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