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I’M LOSING YOU

BRUCE WAGNER is the author of Dead Stars, Memorial, The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist), Still Holding, I’ll Let You Go, and Force Majeure. He lives in Los Angeles.

Praise for I’m Losing You

“Ruthlessly hip and very funny.”

Wired

“Edgy, sublime.”

New York Newsday

“Wagner’s verbal animation rarely flags…. His prose writhes and coruscates.”

—John Updike, The New Yorker

“The author’s images, tones and language give I’m Losing You a hard beauty that glints like a black crystal.”

Time

“Wagner’s latest novel makes all other Hollywood satires Capraesque in their innocence.”

Will Self

“One of the year’s most notorious books…a living satire of a dying Hollywood…a must read.”

Entertainment Weekly

“A black farce played with brute force…. Wagner improves upon the Hollywood-equals-hell novel…with an intricately woven jump-cut montage of deeply twisted parents, children, doctors, filmmakers, agents, writers, and actors who lay waste to each other’s lives and score movie deals from the carnage.”

Details

“Mr. Wagner…treats us to many glorious phrases and whole passages that have the self-propelled rhythm of great prose.”

—Adam Begley, New York Observer

“Electrifying…a viciously funny, kaleidoscopically plotted Hollywood satire. Will invite comparisons to Robert Altman, Tom Wolfe, or any other modern Swift or Pope you can think of.”

Boston Book Review

“Funny, mordant, erudite, affecting, perverse, hyperverbal…. Wagner is huge.”

Washington Times

“A literary novel of Hollywood—a rare event, to be sure. I can’t think of any novel in recent memory that has provoked such a rush of uneasy accolades…. So dense as to be almost tactile.”

Variety

“Mordantly funny and morbidly real, I’m Losing You is a giant, decadent hot-tub party….A great, gossipy treat.”

Philadelphia Inquirer

“A Hollywood of neurotic self-destructive sex and technology-obsessed locals—and those are the nicer people. Epic.”

Women’s Wear Daily

“A funnier and even more brutal Hollywood send-up than his previous novel, Force Majeure…brilliant.”

New York Post

“All of [the characters] are finely, beautifully drawn…. Wagner manages to breathe so much life into them that even their most despicable acts are understandable.”

The Advocate

“Makes the nonfictional You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again look like a Hollywood valentine.”

Glamour

“A deliciously guilty pleasure…perfect beach reading for the millennium.”

Newsday

“The most distinctive Jewish novel since Portnoy’s Complaint.

Jewish Journal

“A meditation on moral corruption and loss which is at turns hilarious, tragic, and at times as caustic as a shot of kerosene.”

Detour

“Compared to this novel, the Hollywood disenchantments of Nathanael West and F. Scott Fitzgerald seem gently nostalgic.”

Books of the Southwest

“An ambitious and complex literary novel…one of the best serious books published this year.”

Sun-Sentinel

“A dazzling prose stylist.”

Hartford Courant