From the acclaimed author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night, an
acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film
star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
Set in disparate parts of Los Angeles, Chicken uproariously,
grievously, relates the collision and inevitably ruinous paths of two
incendiary figures. One is the once beautiful and very famous Parnell
Wilde, a maverick actor arrogant in his disastrous fall. The other is
Annabel Wrath, a much younger, idiosyncratic cult filmmaker with
contradictory motives for seeking the older man out.
The two are profoundly altered by their meeting and its harrowing
denouement and manage to save each other from their paths of torment and
dizzying spirals of decline. But when Parnell is offered the chance to
perform in the sequel to Ultraviolence, the feature film that made him
famous -- and to work again with its brilliant but merciless director --
he and Annabel are forced to wrestle with their fractured pasts as the
extreme, fleeting, and dangerous world of fame threatens to divide them.