Bright Shiny Morning: A rip-roaring ride through LA from the author of My Friend Leonard
James Frey
Aug 2008 · John Murray · Narrated by Lorelei King and Trevor White
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Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.
It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees.
Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Freys trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life.
Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.
It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees.
Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Freys trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life.
Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.
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4.3
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January 29, 2018
Not for me personally but stuck through it til the end. It's not like any audiobook I've heard before but I can see why it would appeal to many.
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March 3, 2018
Liked the different threads of narration but found very few of the stories that compelling and a bit predictable. It's OK, probably wouldn't have paid for it
Laura Wright
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February 5, 2018
Felt it could have finished slightly better however overall quite compelling and interesting
About the author
James Frey is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is married and lives in New York.
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