Pure Hollywood

Christine Schutt is the author of two short story collections and three novels. She has been a finalist for both the National Book Award (Florida) and Pulitzer Prize (All Souls). Among other honors, Schutt has twice won the O. Henry Short Story Prize. She is the recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships. Schutt lives and teaches in New York.

A truly gifted writer.' George Saunders'Pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and eerily beautiful'John Ashbery'Christine Schutt continues to write some of the most original and rewarding prose I've ever read.'Sam Lipsyte'Pure Hollywood is pure gold. In tales of rare wit and verve, Christine Schutt leads us into the lives of her perfectly drawn characters--couples young and old, children, skinny men, charming women--and dances on masterful prose through gardens, alcohol (often too much), luxurious homes, and resort vacation spots. Come for the art of her exquisitely weird writing and stay for the human drama. I loved each story--the quick flashes as well as the longer stories. Each one damaged my composure as a reader and fascinated me as a writer. Bravo!' Ottessa Moshfegh'Christine Schutt is already easily among the liveliest stylists of our time, and these eleven stories prove we ain't seen nothing yet. Each is a wonder, pickled in her crystalline idiom and cured under her brutal, astonishing wit.' - Claire Vaye Watkins'With terse sentences that read like poetry, Schutt strips each scene of excess context and cuts to the heart of the moment . . . Schutt's haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.'Los Angeles Times'Shot through with Woolf's lyrical, restless spirit.'New York Times Book Review'Her sentences never waste a phrase or even a word.'Washington Post