AMPUTATION is the first novel to be written about the inferno that obliterated two Los Angeles cities in January of 2025. Major characters are comedian Stephen Colbert; Karen Bass; a Timothée Chalamet stunt double; a fiercely pro-Palestinian heiress and her Zionist father; disgraced Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch and a failed indie film producer——along with an assorted battalion of ordinary people, opportunists and looters.
A fable drenched in hyperrealism, AMPUTATION is a burnt jewel box showcasing Wagner's transcendent, scabrously poetic powers as he explores the lives (and deaths) of the fire victims, and the consequences of dereliction, delusion, incompetence——and impermanence.
Genre: Literary Fiction
A fable drenched in hyperrealism, AMPUTATION is a burnt jewel box showcasing Wagner's transcendent, scabrously poetic powers as he explores the lives (and deaths) of the fire victims, and the consequences of dereliction, delusion, incompetence——and impermanence.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Bruce Wagner is a mad genius and an American master. There are few writers, living or dead, who can make a reader laugh and cry on the same page. In AMPUTATION, Wagner proves once more he is one of the great chroniclers of this surreal, demented age." - Ross Barkan
"Amputation is laugh-out-loud funny, casually profound, beautifully written. I think he's the best prose writer working now - I really do." - Bret Easton Ellis
"Amputation is laugh-out-loud funny, casually profound, beautifully written. I think he's the best prose writer working now - I really do." - Bret Easton Ellis
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