Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375727809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves. Waking up in an LA hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life. Susan Colgate is an unbankable former TV star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear. John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, Miss Wyoming is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities.
Miss Wyoming
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375727809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves. Waking up in an LA hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life. Susan Colgate is an unbankable former TV star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear. John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, Miss Wyoming is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375727809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves. Waking up in an LA hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life. Susan Colgate is an unbankable former TV star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear. John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, Miss Wyoming is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities.
North of Crazy
Author: Neltje
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250088143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Imagine a world of Gatsby-esque glamor, opulence, and cultural prestige, of exclusive parties and elegant dinners, of literary luminaries including Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Irving Stone, and Theodore Roethke, of Manhattan townhouses and country estates. This is a world where children are raised by nannies, tutors, chauffeurs, gardeners, butlers, maids, and assorted staff, sent off to private schools—and largely ignored by their parents. Publishing magnate Nelson Doubleday’s daughter, Neltje, was raised to assume her place as a society matron. But beneath a seemingly idyllic childhood, darker currents ran: a colorful but alcoholic father whose absences left holes, a mother incapable of love, a family divided by money and power struggles, and a secret that drove the young woman into emotional isolation. North of Crazy is her story—written with the same fierce passion, wit, and emotion that drove her off the conventional path to reconstruct her life from base zero. She became an artist, cattle rancher, and entrepreneur.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250088143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Imagine a world of Gatsby-esque glamor, opulence, and cultural prestige, of exclusive parties and elegant dinners, of literary luminaries including Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Irving Stone, and Theodore Roethke, of Manhattan townhouses and country estates. This is a world where children are raised by nannies, tutors, chauffeurs, gardeners, butlers, maids, and assorted staff, sent off to private schools—and largely ignored by their parents. Publishing magnate Nelson Doubleday’s daughter, Neltje, was raised to assume her place as a society matron. But beneath a seemingly idyllic childhood, darker currents ran: a colorful but alcoholic father whose absences left holes, a mother incapable of love, a family divided by money and power struggles, and a secret that drove the young woman into emotional isolation. North of Crazy is her story—written with the same fierce passion, wit, and emotion that drove her off the conventional path to reconstruct her life from base zero. She became an artist, cattle rancher, and entrepreneur.
Jet
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Trial By Fire
Author: Gerry Spence
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780688148386
Category : Penthouse (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780688148386
Category : Penthouse (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Marrying Miss Marshal
Author: Lacy Williams
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373828810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
"Inspirational historical romance"--Spine.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373828810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
"Inspirational historical romance"--Spine.
Jet
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
All Hands
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book
Author: American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.
The Murder of Lil Miss
Author: Sheila Kimmell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976747000
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the secluded darkness of an early spring night, Lisa Marie Kimmell and her sporty black Honda vanished from a Wyoming desert highway. Frantic, Lisa?s family and friends mounted a tireless search for the missing 18-year old across three states. The answer to Lisa?s disappearance was found a week later in the icy waters of the North Platte River. The first search was one of love and futility. After Lisa was found murdered, a second search was launched. A search for justice. Ron and Sheila Kimmell were determined to find their daughter's murderer despite the many jurisdictional and bureaucratic obstacles they encountered. It would take years before the mystery unraveled and the Kimmell's discovered truths more horrifying than anyone could imagine. Numerous similar homicides remain unsolved in the western states. Are they connected in some way? Can Ron Sheila's relentless pursuit for justice help find answers for other families?--back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976747000
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the secluded darkness of an early spring night, Lisa Marie Kimmell and her sporty black Honda vanished from a Wyoming desert highway. Frantic, Lisa?s family and friends mounted a tireless search for the missing 18-year old across three states. The answer to Lisa?s disappearance was found a week later in the icy waters of the North Platte River. The first search was one of love and futility. After Lisa was found murdered, a second search was launched. A search for justice. Ron and Sheila Kimmell were determined to find their daughter's murderer despite the many jurisdictional and bureaucratic obstacles they encountered. It would take years before the mystery unraveled and the Kimmell's discovered truths more horrifying than anyone could imagine. Numerous similar homicides remain unsolved in the western states. Are they connected in some way? Can Ron Sheila's relentless pursuit for justice help find answers for other families?--back cover.
The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book
Author: American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description