Bright Shiny Morning

James Frey is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. His books A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, Bright Shiny Morning and The Final Testament of the Holy Bible have all been bestsellers around the world. He is married and lives in New York.

'An absolute triumph of a novel. In fact it's so good that it makes Frey's real-life resurrection from crooked biographer to great American novelist far more impressive ... Frey, a natural novelist to his fingertips, hits the deeper truths with this honest, vibrant and tender portrait of Los Angeles and the American dream ... It can be no exaggeration to say that Bright Shiny Morning amounts to the literary comeback of the decade ... James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years' -- Irvine Welsh, Guardian 'He turns clich?s into characters robust enough to carry this 500-page Californian odyssey' -- Guardian 'A sparkling narrative, which doesn't shrink from exposing the city's seamier side but ultimately is a huge celebration' -- Daily Mail Frey writes with pace and energy -- Times Literary Supplement 'A compulsive piece of popular fiction ... He's an excellent entertainer ... Frey can tell a story and has a fine eye for the variegated economic milieux in which his characters travel. So what if, by the end, you come away thinking the novel superficial and lacking in original insight? This is Los Angeles, baby. And in LA superficiality has its own integrity' -- The Times 'Frey clearly has a knack for telling tales - this story of interweaving, never-meeting strangers in LA is an engrossing read' -- The Times '[It] pays little heed to conventional syntax, thus creating a beguiling momentum of its own, propelled by raw emotion and energy ... this compulsive novel is testament that good fiction can reveal powerful emotional truths' -- Independent on Sunday An intriguing novel peopled by characters whose presence lingers once reading has ceased -- List 'A furiously good storyteller' -- New York Times 'Taking the scattergun approach of his bestseller, A Million Little Pieces, [Frey] exposes the grubby reality of the Hollywood dream' -- Marie Claire 'Totally addictive' -- Time Out 'An immaculately written novel about a