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I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner (2002, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100375500022

ISBN-139780375500022

eBay Product ID (ePID)1962893

Product Key Features

Book TitleI'll Let You Go

Number of Pages576 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2002

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorBruce Wagner

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight29.6 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-026729

ReviewsPraise for Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing you "[Wagner] writes like a wizard. . . . His prose writhes and coruscates." -John Updike, The New Yorker "Ferocious acuity. Outrageous. . . . Dead-on in every way." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Superb. . . . The author's images, tones, and language give I'm Losing You a hard beauty that glints like black crystal." -Time "The year's best book."-Walter Kirn, New York magazine "One of the year's most notorious books. . . . A must-read."-Entertainment Weekly "Ruthlessly hip and very funny."-Wired "Wagner's latest novel makes all other Hollywood satires Capraesque in their innocence."-Will Self "Edgy, sublime."-New York Newsday "Mr. Wagner . . . treats us to many glorious phrases and whole passages that have the self-propelled rhythm of great prose."-Adam Begley, The New York Observer

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Synopsis"[Wagner] slices open the self-satisfied bosom of Los Angeles yet again in his third novel, a sprawling family saga that trades the usual mush-mouthed sentimentalities for cascading shards of knife-edged vignettes. A masterful, modern-day fantasy of millionaires and madmen, fathers and sons, reality and dreams." --Kirkus Reviews Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing You was hailed as "outrageous -- dead-on in every way" by Janet Maslin in The New York Times. New York magazine's Walter Kirn called it "the year's best book." And John Updike, in The New Yorker , wrote that Bruce Wagner "writes like a wizard." In I'll Let You Go , Wagner offers a stunning novel that surpasses anything he's done before. Twelve-year-old Toulouse "Tull" Trotter lives on his grandfather's vast Bel-Air parkland estate with his mother, the beautiful, drug-addicted Katrina, a landscape artist who specializes in topiary laby-rinths. He spends most of his time with his young cousins Lucy, the girl detective, and Edward, a prodigy undaunted by the disfiguring effects of Apert Syndrome. One day, an impulsive revelation from Lucy sets in motion a chain of events that changes Tull -- and the Trotter family -- forever. Though the story unfolds in contemporary Los Angeles, the reader hears echoes of Proust and 1,001 Nights as Toulouse seeks his lost father, a woman finds her lost love, and a family of unimaginable wealth learns that its fate is tied to those of the orphan Amaryllis (who officially aspires to be a saint) and her protector, a courtly giant of a homeless schizophrenic -- both of them on the run from the law. Along a path shaded by murder and mysticism, we meet such unforgettable characters as Fitzsimmons, a deranged former social worker; the enterprising Monasterio family of servants (Candelaria, Epitacio, and Eulogio); "Someone-Help-Me", a streetwise devil; and Pullman, a seemingly ageless Great Dane. Complexly wrought, deeply moving, and scathingly ironic, I'll Let You Go dazzles the reader with the unique blend of gorgeous prose, acerbic wit, and deep emotion that are the specific province of Bruce Wagner., " Wagner] slices open the self-satisfied bosom of Los Angeles yet again in his third novel, a sprawling family saga that trades the usual mush-mouthed sentimentalities for cascading shards of knife-edged vignettes. A masterful, modern-day fantasy of millionaires and madmen, fathers and sons, reality and dreams." --Kirkus Reviews Bruce Wagner s I m Losing You was hailed as "outrageous -- dead-on in every way" by Janet Maslin in The New York Times. New York magazine s Walter Kirn called it "the year s best book." And John Updike, in The New Yorker , wrote that Bruce Wagner "writes like a wizard." In I ll Let You Go , Wagner offers a stunning novel that surpasses anything he s done before. Twelve-year-old Toulouse "Tull" Trotter lives on his grandfather s vast Bel-Air parkland estate with his mother, the beautiful, drug-addicted Katrina, a landscape artist who specializes in topiary laby-rinths. He spends most of his time with his young cousins Lucy, the girl detective, and Edward, a prodigy undaunted by the disfiguring effects of Apert Syndrome. One day, an impulsive revelation from Lucy sets in motion a chain of events that changes Tull -- and the Trotter family -- forever. Though the story unfolds in contemporary Los Angeles, the reader hears echoes of Proust and 1,001 Nights as Toulouse seeks his lost father, a woman finds her lost love, and a family of unimaginable wealth learns that its fate is tied to those of the orphan Amaryllis (who officially aspires to be a saint) and her protector, a courtly giant of a homeless schizophrenic -- both of them on the run from the law. Along a path shaded by murder and mysticism, we meet such unforgettable characters as Fitzsimmons, a deranged former social worker; the enterprising Monasterio family of servants (Candelaria, Epitacio, and Eulogio); "Someone-Help-Me," a streetwise devil; and Pullman, a seemingly ageless Great Dane. Complexly wrought, deeply moving, and scathingly ironic, I'll Let You Go dazzles the reader with the unique blend of gorgeous prose, acerbic wit, and deep emotion that are the specific province of Bruce Wagner."

LC Classification NumberPS3573.A369I45 2001