Synopses & Reviews
Dreaming of fame as a filmmaker, hungry for love and sex, Rebecca Roth heads out to Edge City, L.A., where her dreams mutate into nightmares. Hilarious, heart-blisteringly disastrous love affairs and degrading film jobs, encounters with stars and transients, a midget stunt-woman, and a sacrificial cow. With relentlessly cinematic, jarring, and alluring prose straight out of the Hollywood wasteland, Rachel Resnick captures the bleak scene of "glamorous" L.A. with dizzying grace.
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"Sharp, jarring...Enjoy the visceral experience of existing on the fringes of celebrity." --
Details"Rachel Resnick's debut novel zips back and forth between set pieces and epiphanies-and cuts deep." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"F*cking amazing! Imagine Irvine Welsh with a sex change and air-dropped onto Hollywood. Go West...is more than a great book, it's a phenomenon. A flat-out hysterical, heart-for-days guide through end-of-the-line Los Angeles. Rachel Resnick can write the ass off any man alive." --Jerry Stahl, Author of Permanent Midnight
"Bravely bizarre and splintered as a mosaic, like pieces of Bruce Wagner and Nathanael West glued into a window sunlit with despair." --Kirkus Reviews
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"This sharp, jarring novel is told in short bursts...enjoy the visceral experience of existing on the fringes of celebrity." (Details Magazine)
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"Her crackling style and jaunty wrestling with L.A. should guarantee her smart readers."
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
About the Author
Rachel Resnick was born in Jerusalem, Israel. A Yale graduate, she went west to Los Angeles, where she lives, writes, and teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. This is her first novel.