{"product_id":"dead-stars-9780142196878","title":"Dead Stars","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eDead Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eLondon Fields\u003c\/i\u003e of Los Angeles, the \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e of TMZ culture--an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither.\"--Tom Bissell, \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world's youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who's just undergone a mastectomy.... Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending Kanye West.... Jackie, a photographer once celebrated for arty nudes of her young daughter, is working at a Sears Family Portrait boutique.... And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning while his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on \u003ci\u003eGlee\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, \u003ci\u003eDead Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is Bruce Wagner's most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142196878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.49w x 1.40d","brand":"Bruce Wagner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44637524689077,"sku":"9780142196878","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3d90b8d4-de8f-4817-9006-56ed2d8d3a7d.jpg?v=1726582097","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dead-stars-9780142196878","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}