{"product_id":"pure-hollywood-by-christine-schutt","title":"'Pure Hollywood' by Christine Schutt","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"1011\" data-start=\"140\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNo dreamy-Hollywood shimmer, more rot under upholstery and people loving each other badly in high definition.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1011\" data-start=\"140\"\u003eAn alcoholic widowed actress withdraws to the desert, a young mother’s rejection of her child, a newlywed couple ignore the warnings of a painter scorched by love, and elsewhere Schutt tracks erotic fixation, familial damage, longing, spite and whips them together in these pieces that bite you back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1011\" data-start=\"140\"\u003eThe pleasure here is not big plot machinery but how cleanly and unnervingly Schutt cuts into dependency, desire, and emotional distortion. Sharp, cold, often very funny in a dark way, and written with that rare precision understands domestic scenes are always faintly dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1011\" data-start=\"140\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd Other Stories paperback, 2018. Very good condition, clean throughout with light shelfwear only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44507155464275,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-04-19T133447.793.png?v=1776569804","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/pure-hollywood-by-christine-schutt","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}