James Franco

Palo Alto (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now a provocative and impressive (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's granddaughter)starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmerthe fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called compelling and gutsy.

James Franco's story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In Lockheed a young woman's summerspent working a dull internshipis suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of violence at a house party. In American History a high school freshman attempts to impress a girl with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner during a classroom skitonly to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In I Could Kill Someone, a lonely teenager buys a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins to wonder about his bully's own inner life.

These spare and riveting (O, The Oprah Magazine) stories are a compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth. Palo Alto is, a collection of beautifully written stories (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that capture with perfect pitch the impossible exhilaration, the inevitable downbeatness, and the pure confusion of being an adolescent (Elle).

Features a bonus essay by James Franco on Gia Coppola's film adaptation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439175729
• Artikelnr.: 37920795

Autorenporträt

James Franco is an acclaimed actor, director, artist, and writer. His film appearances include 127 Hours, Milk, Pineapple Express, Oz the Great and Powerful, Spring Breakers, and the Spider-Man trilogy. Franco has written and directed several films, and his visual art has been featured in solo shows in Los Angeles and New York. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, McSweeney's, and other publications. Franco has an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College.