Force Majeure
By Bruce Wagner
1991
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
468
Number of Pages
Bud Wiggins dreamed of achieving fame as a screenwriter. He almost made it. Instead, he finds himself free-falling through a world of hallucinatory absurdity, low comedy, and epic degradation. A Hollywood bottom-feeder who moonlights as a limo driver to pay the bills, both tormented and vicariously aroused by his contact with the industry's elite, Mr. Wiggins bears poignant, paranoid witness to the horror and hysteria that are by-products of "the Business." His phantasmagoric saga, by turns picaresque, pornographic, and poetic, Force Majeure is the first of a projected quartet called "Scriptures" that will chronicle the misadventures and transcendental fall and rise—comic, tragic, and tragicosmic—of Bud Wiggins, Quixote of Babylon.
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
195
5 STARS
28%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Bruce Wagner
Author · 15 books
Bruce Wagner is the author of The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist); Still Holding; I'll Let You Go (a PEN USA fiction award finalist); I'm Losing You; and Force Majeure. He lives in Los Angeles.
