Dead Stars
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By a critic favorite and American master—he has been hailed by John Updike as "a wizard" and by Michiko Kakutani as "dazzling"—Bruce Wagner's Dead Stars is his most enthralling novel to date.
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Guaranteed to be the most uproariously scabrous, controversial, and sharply observant novel of the year, Dead Stars is the story of Telma, the world's youngest breast cancer survivor (a self-styled "kansurvivor warriorgrrrl"), who crosses paths with actor Michael Douglas as he pursues his greatest cinematic dream, set against the backdrop of a Hollywood—and culture—increasingly engulfed by online pornography and KardashianWorld, where everyone is a star of their own making.
There is nothing quite like a Bruce Wagner novel—his prose is captivating, exuberant, and surprises with profound truths on spirituality, human nature, and redemption even as his characters and stories play themselves out across the celebrity-addled, sex- and money-obsessed society.
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