Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew.Orders placed via our website can be paid using any of the following methods: With Pure Hollywood Christine Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise.

From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, from a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn, love and hurt. In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. The sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt. ' Pure Hollywood is pure gold.'-Ottessa Moshfegh Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew. In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, in Pure Hollywood Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt.

In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. Hailed by George Saunders as 'a truly gifted writer,' with Pure Hollywood & Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career and her inimitable style that John Ashbery once described as 'pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful.' 'With terse sentences that read like poetry, Schutt strips each scene of excess context and cuts to the heart of the moment.Schutt's haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.'- Los Angeles Times

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