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An edition of Miss Wyoming (1999)

Miss Wyoming

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

"Susan is a former child-beauty-pageant contender. John is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan.".

"Susan refuses to spend one more day peddling herself for cheesy TV sitcom parts and takes advantage of a very weird situation to disappear. John turns his back on a hedonistic life making blockbuster action flicks. Shedding their self-made identities, each sets out on an uncharted course across the Gap-clogged, strip-mall landscape of California, searching for the thing - Love - that neither has ever really known, but that they now think they just might, actually, desperately want.".

"Assisting Susan and John are a blackmailing pageant mom, a pair of suburban eggheads, a rust-belt refugee, and a salad bar of other twentieth-century Americans who all share the dream of one day taking center stage. In Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland has combined the literary and the popular in a sparkling and witty caper that quietly resonates into the eternal."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
312

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Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
March 15, 2004, HarperPerennial
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
March 15, 2004, HarperPerennial
Cover of: Miss Wyoming.
Miss Wyoming.
March 1, 2003, Rowohlt Tb.
Paperback in German
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
2001, Vintage Canada
in English - Vintage Canada ed.
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
2001, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Modern Library
eBook in English
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
2000, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
2000, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
December 16, 1999, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming
1999, Random House Canada
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

First Edition;9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. $23.00

Published in
New York City, New York, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.O855 M57 1999

Contributors

Cover Photographs
Barnaby Hall
Cover Photographs
Robert Misrach
Cover Design
John Gall

The Physical Object

Pagination
310 p.
Number of pages
312
Dimensions
22 x 15 x 3 centimeters
Weight
305 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL33007M
Internet Archive
misswyoming00coup
ISBN 10
0375407340
LCCN
99015212
OCLC/WorldCat
41142927
Library Thing
922
Goodreads
602677

Work Description

Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life.

Susan Colgate is an unbankable former TV star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear.

John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, Miss Wyoming is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities.

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