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Force Majeure:

A Novel
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12 Reviews
Simon and Schuster, Feb 1, 2005 - Fiction - 480 pages
Bud Wiggins dreamed of achieving fame as a screenwriter. He almost made it. Instead, he finds himself free-falling through a world of hallucinatory absurdity, low comedy, and epic degradation. A Hollywood bottom-feeder who moonlights as a limo driver to pay the bills, both tormented and vicariously aroused by his contact with the industry's elite, Mr. Wiggins bears poignant, paranoid witness to the horror and hysteria that are by-products of "the Business." His phantasmagoric saga, by turns picaresque, pornographic, and poetic, Force Majeure is the first of a projected quartet called "Scriptures" that will chronicle the misadventures and transcendental fall and rise -- comic, tragic, and tragicosmic -- of Bud Wiggins, Quixote of Babylon.
  

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User Review  - August - Goodreads

pretty far-out rendering of the classic american hack screenwriter in LA book. you'll laugh and you'll cringe Read full review

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User Review  - Donna - Goodreads

Shane is brilliant but naive. He develops a program to generate tornado force winds and fails to recognize the weapon potential of the program. He quits when he learns that a black op government ... Read full review

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Bruce Wagner is the author of The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist); Still Holding; I'll Let You Go (a PEN USA fiction award finalist); I'm Losing You; and Force Majeure. He lives in Los Angeles.

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