![]() ![]() Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew. ![]() In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, in Pure Hollywood Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. Pure Hollywood is pure gold.-Ottessa Moshfegh The sensational new story. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt. Buy a cheap copy of Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories book by Christine Schutt. Collected in Pure Hollywood, And Other Stories, 2018. Hailed by George Saunders as "a truly gifted writer," with Pure Hollywood Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career and her inimitable style that John Ashbery once described as "pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful." In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. Christine Schutt is the author of two collections of stories, Nightwork and A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer. Im allowed to end stories in this way thats part precipice, part digression, part musical coda. ![]()
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