Marvel Universe
Origin Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
Published:12th Sep '24
Should be back in stock very soon
The Marvel Universe details the lives and deaths of Wagner’s cast of characters: an orphaned billionairess, a black man wrongly convicted of murder, a schizophrenic child obsessed with the comic book character Wolverine, a cancelled TV star, and the love child of Elon Musk. Their intertwining stories take place during the pandemic, a year of tectonic social unrest, ushering in a new reality that surpasses anything any Hollywood franchise could hope to imagine.
"He is a visionary posing as a farceur."--Salman Rushdie
"[Wagner's The Empty Chair] would make a fine fictional companion to the Trappist monk Thomas Merton's writings on spiritual outrage and the impossibility of solace." --Dani Shapiro, The New York Time Book Review
"Bruce Wagner writes really wonderfully about that whole milieu [of Hollywood] and its gothic vanity."--Emma Cline
"To say that [Maps to the Stars] deglamorizes the movie business is like saying that Upton Sinclair deglamorized the meat-packing industry... the medium of film allows Wagner to make his audience visualize (instead of merely imagine) the hallucinations that plague his characters." --Francine Prose
"Wagner is the James Joyce whose Dublin is Hollywood."--David Cronenberg
"[Dead Stars is] A Rabelaisian masterpiece." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"Bruce Wagner's stories about Hollywood are the best I've read since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West."—Terry Southern
"Wagner writes like a wizard. His prose writhes and coruscates."—John Updike
ISBN: 9781648210518
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 38mm
Weight: 499g
528 pages