What others have said about Pure Hollywood: Please join us! This event is free and open to the public. Schutt's haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.' Los Angeles Times - `Shot through with Woolf's lyrical, restless spirit.' New York Times Book Review - `Her sentences never waste a phrase or even a word.Christine Schutt will be reading from her most recent publication, Pure Hollywood, Friday, April 27th in the Donaghey Student Center (Ledbetter A), beginning at 2 p.m. Each is a wonder, pickled in her crystalline idiom and cured under her brutal, astonishing wit.'-Claire Vaye Watkins - `With terse sentences that read like poetry, Schutt strips each scene of excess context and cuts to the heart of the moment. Come for the art of her exquisitely weird writing and stay for the human drama.' Ottesa Moshfegh - `Christine Schutt is already easily among the liveliest stylists of our time, and these eleven stories prove we ain't seen nothing yet.

In tales of rare wit and verve, Christine Schutt leads us into the lives of her perfectly drawn characters - couples young and old, children, skinny men, charming women - and dances on masterful prose through gardens, alcohol (often too much), luxurious homes, and resort vacation spots. `A truly gifted writer.' George Saunders - `Pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and eerily beautiful' John Ashbery - `Pure Hollywood is pure gold. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects. 'On the beach, they agreed, their daydreaming was sometimes dangerous.' Schutt's sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives are shot through with surprise and, as Ottessa Moshfegh has it, 'exquisitely weird writing'. A newly-wed couple who, while still 'newly everything', fall in with a misanthropic painter burned by love. In an exclusive island resort, a young family's holiday has terrible consequences. An alcoholic actress takes her children to live in 'a rusted box on stilts' in the desert. In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of longing and danger.

With Pure Hollywood, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career.

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