I'm Losing You - Hardcover

Screenwriter Bruce Wagner, writer for the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series and of the TV mini-series "White Palms," has set his second novel, like his first, Force Majeure, in the hip world with which he is intimate--Hollywood, as in Babylon writ large, a world of dreams shattered or grotesquely corrupted. Arranged in short sections, each written from the viewpoint of some 20 alternating characters, without a clear plot line, the book's style is as disorienting as the drug-dazed sexually abusive lifestyles of the players. Wagner pulls no punches in his descriptions of these pitiable losers and vile winners; indeed parts of the book are hard on the stomach. The book is unrelentingly powerful, and occasionally downright revolting.

In an epic novel that does for Hollywood what Nashville did for Nashville, I'm Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and out as their lives intersect in a series of coincidences that exposes the "bigger than life" ferocity of Hollywood--and proves that Bruce Wagner is a talent to be reckoned with. "A writer without mercy . . . this book is like a wire stretched across the throat."--Oliver Stone.