Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick : A Novel of Separation
Hoping to put distance between her and her disturbing family life, twenty-something Rebecca Roth heads west to L.A., where she encounters the alienation and self-destruction suffered by most Hollywood dreamers. A first novel.
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Rebecca Roth blows the Northeast, fleeing the ghost of her dead mother. Dreaming of fame as a filmmaker, hungry for love and sex, Rebecca drives to Edge City L.A., where, still haunted, her dreams mutate into nightmares. Hilarious, heart-blisteringly disastrous love affairs and degrading film jobs, encounters with stars and transients, a midget stuntwoman, a sacrificial cow. With relentlessly cinematic, jarring, and alluring prose straight out of the Hollywood wasteland, Rachel Resnick captures the bleak scene of "glamourous" L.A. with dizzying grace.
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