NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A novelist discovers the dark side
of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental
collapse in "a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality"
(Time)
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LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub**
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"An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive
pleasure."--Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies**
Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film
adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter
back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But
California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate
corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand
of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an
unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter--the cynical starlet of his film--and
the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the
darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood.
Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present
moment--a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of
alternative facts, and "a ghost story not of the past but of the near
future" (The New York Times).
