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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Touchstone Books
Publication date
September 11, 2012
Pages
274
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781451651980
ISBN-10
1451651988
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$18.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In the tradition of What Makes Sammy Run? and Less Than Zero, an edgy novel that takes readers behind the scenes at a big L.A. talent agency, revealing Hollywoodâs dark side and the real price of success in show business.
The unnamed narrator in L.A. Fadeaway is twenty-three, the son of a studio head, rich, entitled, and working in the trainee program of the hottest talent agency in Los Angeles. Fueled by massive quantities of unchecked ambition and attitude, he has one goal: become an agent and take over Hollywood.
Yet in spite of his cocky-cool demeanor, living the âlifeâ is not all itâs cracked up to be. This born-andbred boy of la-la land is consumed with constant anxiety, which he dulls with the usual tools of the trade: Xanax, alcohol, pot, and porn. He knows all too well that Hollywood is a zerosum game: the only way to get power is to take it. The question is how low is he willing to go in order to ascend the Hollywood canyonsâand will his determination to follow in his fatherâs footsteps change after the discovery of an awful family secret?
Ready to take his rightful place in the canon with Sammy Glick, L.A. Fadeawayâs enigmatic hero takes readers deep into this dark, star-filled subculture with a hilarious, brutally honest, and unfiltered eye. In L.A. Fadeaway, never has Hollywood been so frighteningâ or fun.
The unnamed narrator in L.A. Fadeaway is twenty-three, the son of a studio head, rich, entitled, and working in the trainee program of the hottest talent agency in Los Angeles. Fueled by massive quantities of unchecked ambition and attitude, he has one goal: become an agent and take over Hollywood.
Yet in spite of his cocky-cool demeanor, living the âlifeâ is not all itâs cracked up to be. This born-andbred boy of la-la land is consumed with constant anxiety, which he dulls with the usual tools of the trade: Xanax, alcohol, pot, and porn. He knows all too well that Hollywood is a zerosum game: the only way to get power is to take it. The question is how low is he willing to go in order to ascend the Hollywood canyonsâand will his determination to follow in his fatherâs footsteps change after the discovery of an awful family secret?
Ready to take his rightful place in the canon with Sammy Glick, L.A. Fadeawayâs enigmatic hero takes readers deep into this dark, star-filled subculture with a hilarious, brutally honest, and unfiltered eye. In L.A. Fadeaway, never has Hollywood been so frighteningâ or fun.
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Paperback
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from Touchstone Books (September 11, 2012)
9781451651980 | details & prices | 274 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $18.99
About: In the tradition of What Makes Sammy Run?
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