Dead Stars

Written by Bruce Wagner

Narrated by Bruce Wagner

New York Times best-selling author Bruce Wagner is also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and a notable contributor to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. With Dead Stars, Wagner delivers uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex- and money-obsessed world of Hollywood through the story of Telma, a 13-year-old girl who's also the world's youngest breast cancer survivor. A regular at pink-tie charity events and private lunches, Telma has come to enjoy her fame-so she's not pleased to learn another young girl is about to break her record.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781464049040

Bruce Wagner

Bruce Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the famous “Cellphone Trilogy,” (I’m Losing You, I’ll Let You Go and Still Holding), Dead Stars, The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-nominated Chrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg’s film Maps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-series Wild Palms for producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons the acclaimed Tracey Ullman’sState of the Union. He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker.  

Reviews for Dead Stars

[zmagic69 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I DID NOT FINISH THIS BOOK!!!!I confess I have never read any books by this author before, but if they wander as aimlessly as this one did, I doubt I will.Dead Stars premise was promising. A cutting attack on our porn, fame and celebrity obsessed culture. The problem for me is that the book just wandered all over the place. At times it was very funny, but it just took forever to get to any kind of point. I mean 120 pages in and I couldn't care less about the fate or likely downfall of any of the main characters, I couldn't even remember what their soon to be claim to fame was, is, or would be. This may have been a great book if I had bothered to finish it- at least based on others who have read and reviewed it- I just could. I stopped caring about the story.

[picardyrose · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Awful. Bordered on child porn. I feel sickish that I even read it. It's supposed to be hilarious satire, but it didn't strike me funny at all. His plot about the star cancer survivor was really intriguing, though -- that's why I kept reading. I have another of his books. I hope it won't be as filth-ridden.But if I were Elle Fanning's mother, I would have the FBI on his doorstep.