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Resentment
A Comedy
by Gary Indiana
ISBN: 0385484291
ISBN-13: 9780385484299
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
A satirical novel about a B-magazine writer who travels to L.A. to interview an actor, but becomes obsessed, instead, with a famous murder trial (the "Martinez" brothers, accused of killing their parents).
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"In Gary Indiana's new novel, 'Resentment,' Los Angeles is a place where the shining American dream comes into grotesque conflict with a tawdry, drugged-out, morally collapsed, violent, and yet, as Indiana's ironic subtitle indicates, darkly comic American reality. 'Resentment'...is the product of a huge satirical talent, even if its purpose sometimes seems as uncertain as the cultural disintegration that it describes....Around the sensational trial, Indiana spins several interrelated stories involving characters who occupy some of the more melancholy rungs of California society. As he tells these tales, he commits numerous passages of dazzlingly good writing, its most conspicuous feature being its intentionally affectless, compulsively factual tone, which, of course, sharpens the satire by seeming to be unaware of it. -- Richard Bernstein
-- New York Times
"Gary Indiana's latest novel is a snide satire that borrows from bizarre real events, portraying a Los Angeles blighted by anomie, egotism and opportunism." -- Karen Angel
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 1997
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 303
Publisher's Notes
Day of the Locusts meets Bonfire of the Vanities in this searing burlesque about everyone from the east coast literati to Hollywood's superagents, actors, has-beens and wannabes. Gary Indiana takes no prisoners as he sets his "hero," B-magazine writer Seth, out in Los Angeles to do a celebrity profile of a famous hetero actor who has just taken a major role as a homosexual with AIDS. While on the West Coast, Seth becomes mildly, then completely obsessed with the trial of two privileged young men who are accused of killing their parents in cold blood as they lay sleeping in their Beverly Hills home. Indiana weaves the story of Seth and his not inconsequential resentment for the world at large with the riveting "Martinez" case as it unfolds before the American public. Ironically, hilariously, and ingeniously, Indiana juxtaposes both stories in this blackest of comedies, as he reveals the role of resentment in all human relationships, and the darker side of L.A. roiling beneath the glamour. The media loves nothing more than itself, and no writer/agent/actor/journalist will be able to resist this tell-all novel about all the beautiful people.
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Resentment: A Comedy
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Doubleday. Used - Very Good. Ex-library. Published: 1997. Hardcover.1st ed. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Very Good condition, showing little signs of wear. Hardcover, Ex-Library with stamps/stickers, No writing or marks within text; Box M5589 ( more information) Offered by Experienced Books LLC (United States)
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Doubleday. Used - Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Doubleday. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1997. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket Ex Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover, interior and dustjacket (protected by mylar) show only minor wear; normal library markigs. ( more information) Offered by 45 North (United States)
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Doubleday. Hardcover. 0385484291 Very Good Hardcover, 1997. Doubleday. Stated 1st edition/full # line. X-library book with stickers and stamps. Book itself in great condition. Free Tracking #. han. . Good. ( more information) Offered by Bookladie.com (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1997. Ex-library with usual markings, jacket in broadart cover. Exterior library markings are only one edge stamp and a spine label, Looks almost new.. ISBN: 0385484291. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. CALIFORNIA FICTION. ( more information) Offered by firstfloorfront (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall 0385484291 Used . ( more information) Offered by Vashon Island Books (United States)
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Random House Espanol. Used - Very Good. Condition: Previously read, moderate to light wear.; bkcs ( more information) Offered by Magers and Quinn Booksellers (United States)
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New York: Doubleday. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. 8vo; 303 pages . ( more information) Offered by SandyACo (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Joe Girardi Books (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1997 First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by A Good Read (United States)
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Doubleday, 1997-06-16. Hardcover. New. Brand New Item_Not A Remainder ( more information) Offered by R&R Books (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition (stated). Hardbound. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2" 0385484291 First Edition (stated) / First Printing / No. string 1-10 / 303pgs / Clean and tight copy / Almost as new. . ( more information) Offered by FitzWicken's Books (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book and dustjacket show slight shelfwear. Now protected in mylar. ( more information) Offered by The Book Shoppe (United States)
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Doubleday: NY, 1997. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. First Edition. Signed by author. Light wear, bumping. "Opens with a grisly, intimate double murder and quickly fans out through the boulevards and freeways of a twilight world where self-mutilation is an art form and casual sex easily blurs into casual killing: a world where resentment lies at the root of everything. ( more information) Offered by Steven Baughman (United States)
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New York: Doubleday. Near Fine/No Jacket as Published. 1997. UBG edition.. Original Wraps. 0385484291 Uncorrected Bound Galleys Clean and tight copy / Promo material laid in . ( more information) Offered by FitzWicken's Books (United States)
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Indiana, Gary
Doubleday, New York, 1997. 1st Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ( more information) Offered by MW Books Ltd. (Ireland)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, 1997 A multitextured probe of both public spectacle and private catastrophes,Reserntment, startles us with flashes from an epic judicial battle and its sway over our collective imagination while charting the extreme particularity of human misery. A dark comedy at its best.. First Edition First Printing. As New/As New. Hard Cover. ( more information) Offered by dezertbookx@roadrunner.com (United States)
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Indiana, Gary
Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. Like New. Since the mid-1970s, Gary Indiana has been making a name for himself as a renegade thinker and writer. In the Village Voice and Rolling Stone he created a new brand of highly personal, overtly political cultural commentary that has reshaped journalism. His novels and short stories are equally controversial. Resentment, his new novel, is a true hybrid of his art. Based on Indiana's coverage of the Menendez brothers' trial, the novel is an all-out, savagely funny attack on the media, the U.S. justice system, television, family, and Los Angeles. As new/ Very Good Jacket--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ( more information) Offered by The Recycled Book Shop (Canada)
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New York: Doubleday, 1997 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information) Offered by SYLVESTER & ORPHANOS (United States)
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Doubleday. Hardcover. 0385484291 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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