The Wrecking Ball

Armed with trust funds and pedigrees but bent on rebellion, twenty-somethings Alice, Harry, Rose, and Hugo are teetering on the brink of self-destruction. With Manhattan and London as their playgrounds, they chase oblivion--and their next high--through a glittering blur of nightclubs, decadent parties, high fashion, and underground music scenes, hard-partying on the razor's edge with a never-ending cocktail of drugs and booze. Insomniacs and unstoppable, these four lost souls ride the extreme highs and devastating lows of a summer that quickly reaches a crescendo of music, heat, and hedonism. Wavering between moments of revelation and ruin, they illuminate a generation given everything--except an answer to the timeless question: Who am I?

From a remarkable new literary voice comes a startling, fresh, strikingly candid novel of addiction and excess.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/07/2008
ISBN: 9780061649349
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.36w x 0.62d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/04/2008 pg. 46
Booklist 09/01/2008 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2008 pg. 915