Big Bang
Contributors
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
By David Bowman
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- Nov 19, 2019
- Page Count
- 624 pages
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780316560245
Set in the 1950’s, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination.
In this hilarious, lightning-fast historical novel, Bowman follows the most famous couples of the decade as their lives are torn apart by post-war’s new normal. We see Lucille Ball’s bizarre interrogation by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Jackie Onassis’ moonlight cruise with Frank Sinatra . We follow Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller as they attempt to get quickie divorces together at a loophole resort in Nevada and watch a young Howard Hunt snoop around South America with the newly founded CIA. A young Jimi Hendrix, now the epitome of counterculture cool, tries his luck as a clean cut army recruit.
Written with an almost documentary film like intensity, BIG BANG is a posthumous work from the award-winning author of Let the Dog Drive. A riotous account of a country, perhaps, at the beginning of the end.
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