Starbucks Nation: A Novel - Hardcover

Chris Ver Wiel

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9781559708685: Starbucks Nation: A Novel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559708689 ISBN 13: 9781559708685

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2008

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A satire of southern California pop culture by the award-winning feature film writer and director of such productions as Who Is Cletus Tout? finds reluctant pop icon Morgan Beale reuniting with his believed-dead writing partner on an underground film set based on one of his books and littered with characters from his own life.

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Chris Ver Wiel wrote and directed the feature films Who Is Cletis Tout? and The Waiting Game and won the Moxie! Award for Best Screenwriter for Blink of an Eye. He lives in Sherman Oaks, California. This is his first novel.

From Publishers Weekly:

Delivering an exhaustive inventory of L.A. archetypes, this debut by the writer/director of Who is Cletis Tout? fails to offer insight into the media-blitzed circus at which it discharges its big guns. Morgan Beale, a jaded screenwriter of "mythic" stature busy adapting bestselling book The Chihuahua in the Blue Prada Bag for the screen, one day runs into his long-dead writing partner, Luke. Luke quickly entices Beale into a Hearse, and so begins a hallucinatory if largely incoherent trip into an alternate universe where Ver Wiel allows Beale to go about shooting fish in a barrel. Beal targets "chimp" producers, paparazzi, reality TV hosts and contestants, actors, celebutantes, critics ("I hate critics"), TV anchors (and their segment producers), FEMA and his starlet wife-"the whore of the corn." Unfortunately, this reads mostly like a score-settling hit-list than Tinseltown parody, and it rarely rises above the level of a drugged-out diatribe-particularly during a lengthy, surrealist delirium involving a talking Chihuahua. Beale's bilious outpouring makes his Hollywood shooting gallery almost endearing by comparison.
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