FORCE MAJEURE

by Bruce Wagner ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1991

Smashing debut novel in which screenwriter Bud Wiggin, a Thomas Wolfe for failed screenwriters, seems to be a stand-in for author Wagner--screenwriter of the stupid but successful Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Wiggin never achieves Wagner's modest triumphs, however: his scripts only blacken his standing in the Business. Force Majeure novelizes some high-class short stories about Wiggin that struck loving chords in Hollywood when published earlier: they join here with compelling density into one large arc of characterization as Bud falls from failure to total moral disaster. The episodes trace his horror story from script to floppo script, each chapter giving him one large

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1991

ISBN: 0743268962

Page Count: 480

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1991

Categories: FICTION