Gary Indiana

Resentment: A Comedy (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

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ISBN 13:: 9781584351726
author:: Gary Indiana
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Semiotexte
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2015
Pages:: 392
Dimensions:: 15.2 x 2.9 x 22.9 cm
Genre:: Satire Fiction
Condition:: New
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Seth, a New York-based writer, arrives in Los Angeles in mid-August 1994 to observe the marathon parricide trial of the Martinez brothers, broadcast live on Court TV. Still reeling from a recent obsession, Seth moves between a room at the Chateau Marmont and a Mount Washington shack owned by his friend, Jack, while he writes a profile of Teddy Wade, a young actor who has dared to star as a gay character in a new Hollywood film.

Studded throughout with scathing satirical portraits of media figures, other writers, and the Martinez trial teams, Resentment captures an era that seems, two decades later, at once grotesque, familiar, and a precursor to our own.

Originally published in 1997, this novel is the first in Gary Indiana's trilogy, which explores the state of American life at the millennium's end.

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