I'm so excited, I finally got two copies of "The Delivery Man" by Joe McGinniss Jr. which used a photo I took of Desdemonia awhile back. It sounds like a really awesome book...
"McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep."
-USA Today
( A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice )
The Delivery Man is an exhilarating debut-a fast, frightening, and unflinching portrait of today's lost generation. It is a love story set against the surreal excess of Las Vegas-and the artificial suburbs, gated communities, and freeways that surround it-where broken lives come to seek new beginnings and casinos feed the lust of tourists and residents alike. Ultrasophisticated local kids grow up fast and burn out early.
After attending college in New York, Chase returns to Vegas and is drawn into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service with his childhood friend Michele, a beautiful Salvadoran immigrant with whom he shares a tragic past. Over the course of one extraordinary summer they will confront the violence and emptiness at the heart of the city and their generation. At once stark and electrically atmospheric, horrifying and hopeful, The Delivery Man offers both a visceral reading experience and a complex moral vision. It is a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism.
Film rights sold to Ryan Howe and Thom Mount (The Deer Hunter, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Natural Born Killers) of Whitsett Hill Entertainment. Creighton Vero (Spun) is adapting.
Here are some other photos from our shoot...
Be sure to congratulate her!
"McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep."
-USA Today
( A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice )
The Delivery Man is an exhilarating debut-a fast, frightening, and unflinching portrait of today's lost generation. It is a love story set against the surreal excess of Las Vegas-and the artificial suburbs, gated communities, and freeways that surround it-where broken lives come to seek new beginnings and casinos feed the lust of tourists and residents alike. Ultrasophisticated local kids grow up fast and burn out early.
After attending college in New York, Chase returns to Vegas and is drawn into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service with his childhood friend Michele, a beautiful Salvadoran immigrant with whom he shares a tragic past. Over the course of one extraordinary summer they will confront the violence and emptiness at the heart of the city and their generation. At once stark and electrically atmospheric, horrifying and hopeful, The Delivery Man offers both a visceral reading experience and a complex moral vision. It is a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism.
Film rights sold to Ryan Howe and Thom Mount (The Deer Hunter, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Natural Born Killers) of Whitsett Hill Entertainment. Creighton Vero (Spun) is adapting.
Here are some other photos from our shoot...
Be sure to congratulate her!
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bitten:
I love my sexy cartoon self!!
greenapplemary:
I've only read about half of it, but I like it so far. His writing style is a little different than what I'm used to but I like the characters. Congrats again. 