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Katerina

The new novel from the author of the bestselling A Million Little Pieces

James Frey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Murray Press

Published:11th Sep '18

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A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, James Frey's explosive new novel, is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2017.

At its centre are a young writer and a young model on the verge of fame, both reckless, impulsive, and deeply in love. Twenty-five years later, the writer is rich, famous and numb, and he wants to drive his car into a tree, when he receives an anonymous message that draws him back to the life, and possibly the love, he abandoned years prior. Written in the same percussive, propulsive, dazzling, breathtaking style as A Million Little Pieces, Katerina echoes and complements that most controversial of memoirs, and plays with the same issues of fiction and reality that created, nearly destroyed, and then recreated James Frey in the global imagination.

Praise for James Frey - .

A natural novelist to his fingertips . . . James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years - Irvine Welsh, Guardian

A furiously good storyteller - New York Times

Frey really can write. Brilliantly. And if you don't think so, f*** you - London Evening Standard

Frey is an unusually powerful writer, propulsive, engrossing and some kind of genius at communicating pain - Daily Telegraph

Excellent . . . Frey's storytelling feels compulsive, involuntary . . . poignant and tragic - William Leith, Spectator

America's most notorious author - Time Magazine

Praise for A Million Little Pieces: - .

ISBN: 9781848543201

Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 31mm

Weight: 554g

320 pages