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MISS WYOMING.
by Coupland, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (an interesting two-piece dustjacket, with an outer wraparound band.)/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375407340
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407345
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Pantheon,, (1999.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (an interesting two-piece dustjacket, with an outer wraparound band.). First printing. "From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, a smart, funny, fast-paced mystery with a heartfelt American romance at its core. Susan is a former child-beauty-pageant contender. John is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan." SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp.
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life.Susan Colgate is an unbankable former tv star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear.John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, Miss Wyoming is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47289
- Title
- MISS WYOMING.
- Author
- Coupland, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (an interesting two-piece dustjacket, with an outer wraparound band.)
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375407340
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407345
- Publisher
- Pantheon,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1999.)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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