Lightning Field
Dana Spiotta(Author)
Scribner (Publisher)
Published on 23. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7432-0679-2 (ISBN)
Description
Three women struggle to find value in the ultimate of consumer-driven cultures, Los Angeles. Mina, a waitress, lives with her screenwriter husband and has almost inadvertently acquired two lovers. Her friend Lorene runs a chain of highly successful theme restaurants, catering to the unconscious desires and idiosyncrasies of their rich clientele. Lisa works as a lowly housemaid. With superb wit and keen irony, Spiotta examines the lives of these trapped Los Angeles suburbanites - their neuroses, quack therapies and New Age obsessions - and the strange and varied ways in which women cope with their relationship to contemporary culture.
Reviews / Votes
'A wonderfully observant and knowing novel that gives us a succession of Polaroid snapshots of Los Angeles and some of its denizens and transforms them into a compelling portrait of the City of Angels on the brink of the millennium... The resulting book manages to be funny and hip, lyric and satiric - all at the same time' Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
189 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7432-0679-2 (9780743206792)
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Person
Dana Spiotta grew up in California surrounded by the movie industry. Her first job was as a production assistant on the film Rumblefish. She studied philosophy at Columbia, then moved to Seattle. She has worked in restaurants and written fiction for most of her adult life. She lives in New York, America.