High Tolerance: a Novel of Sex, Race, Celebrity, Murder . . . and Marijuana - Mike Sager - Books - The Sager Group - 9780988178564 - May 15, 2013
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High Tolerance: a Novel of Sex, Race, Celebrity, Murder . . . and Marijuana

Mike Sager

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High Tolerance: a Novel of Sex, Race, Celebrity, Murder . . . and Marijuana

?The wry and knowing Mike Sager has written a saucy and kinetic L. A. novel. Celebrity gets fully toasted in this engaging romp about show business and the clash of cultures high and low, where the talk is tough before the shooting starts. The spotlight, it seems, can sometimes be a very dark place.?
?Ron Carlson, author, Return to Oakpine, co-director, MFA Program in Fiction Writing, University of California, Irvine.

In this artful page-turner, a beloved superstarlet, a controversial billionaire Hip Hop mogul, and a television writer/producer idled by a demoralizing strike are linked together improbably by murder, domestic heartbreak, a sex video . . . and their inclusion on a secret subscription list for an exclusive designer strain of medical marijuana. Over a span of three seemingly ordinary days and nights in Los Angeles, the world wobbles on its digital axis, and futures are forever changed.

Hollywood, January 2008. The Writers Guild of America is on strike. An increasingly peevish viewing audience is relegated to a starvation diet of reruns and old movies. What happens when a series of shocking, deadly, and prurient events boils over into a perfect storm of serendipitous, round-the-clock programming? And what becomes of the major players, whose lives are inalterably masticated by the public?s right to know?

High Tolerance is the second novel by the award-winning Rolling Stone and Esquire journalist Mike Sager, whose work has inspired a number of films, including the classic Boogie Nights. He summons his considerable descriptive and narrative powers?and three decades behind the scenes covering celebrities, gangs, drugs, and crime?to weave together a raw and insightful tale of complicated lives in the shifting racial landscape of turn-of-the-century Los Angeles, the dream factory from which the American Zeitgeist is exported around the globe.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 15, 2013
ISBN13 9780988178564
Publishers The Sager Group
Pages 280
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 16 mm   ·   358 g
Language English  

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