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      Force Majeure

      by Bruce Wagner
      Published
      Aug 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Force Majeure was called a "smashing debut novel" by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the "business as usual" of Hollywood's twisted class system that proved Bruce Wagner was not just an author, but a cultural anthropologist.

      The perpetually up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter, Bud Wiggins, drifts aimlessly in and out of the lives of others and from one script idea to another. Moonlighting as a limo driver to pay his bills, he finds himself immersed in a world of vanity and degradation.

      Wagner infuses his novel with the familiar archetypical characters of Hollywood—a nihilistic producer, an aging film star, an obnoxious mogul—and exposes the madness that drives them all. 
       

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      Feb 2005 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780743268967 ISBN10 0743268962
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      May 1993 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312092900 ISBN10 0312092903
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      First Edition Aug 1991 Random House ISBN13 9780394582610 ISBN10 0394582616
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      Feb 2005 Simon & Schuster ISBN10 B000SH288C
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