
Lightning Field
SPIOTTA DANA(Author)
Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7432-2375-1 (ISBN)
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Description
Married to a failing screenwriter, Mina works at her friend's successful concept restaurants and juggles two lovers. Capturing the contradictions and ambivalence of life in Hollywood, Spiotta presents a bitingly funny portrait of a society shaped by consumerist fetishes and self-obsession.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7432-2375-1 (9780743223751)
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Dana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others; Stone Arabia, A National Books Critics Circle Award finalist; and Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award. Eat the Document has also been made into an opera adaptation. Her most recent novel is Wayward. Spiotta is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Updike Prize, and the Rome Prize for Literature. She lives in Syracuse, New York.