I Met Someone, Bruce Wagner
I Met Someone, Bruce Wagner
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I Met Someone

Author: Bruce Wagner

Narrator: Julianne Moore

Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/01/2016


Synopsis

An emotional thriller by novelist Bruce Wagner, I Met Someone is the story of a fictional Hollywood marriage on the precipice of disaster-and an enthralling meditation on the world in which we live. Bruce Wagner's I Met Someone is the story of Oscar award-winning actress Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter, and the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamor of their lavish, carefully calibrated, celebrity life. After Allegra suffers a miscarriage, Dusty embarks on a search for the daughter she lost at age sixteen and uncovers the answer to a question that has haunted for decades. With riveting suspense, Wagner moves between the perspectives of his characters, revealing their individual trauma and the uncanny connections to each other's past lives. I Met Someone sends the reader down a rabbit hole of the human psyche, with Wagner's remarkable insights into our collective obsession with great wealth and fame, and surprises with unimaginable plot turns and unexpected fate. Alternately tender, shocking, and poetic, I Met Someone is Wagner's most captivating and affecting novel yet.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan on March 01, 2016

Bruce Wagner's newest book, 'I Met Someone,' tells the story of a Hollywood starlet who is searching for a daughter she had many years ago while also dealing with the emotional strife of losing an unborn child. Admittedly, this isn't a book that I would normally be drawn to, but after seeing it surf......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on March 01, 2016

When I pick up a book by Bruce Wagner I know I will be staggered by the beauty of his prose (see quote below), laugh at his unfailingly wicked sense of humor, and be left with unanswered questions--meaning, I will ponder it for a long time after I put it down. I Met Someone, delivers on all these co......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 18, 2016

Cousin Brucie does it again, in a riff on the MULHOLLAND/PERSONA/3 WOMEN pairing that is crueler, more cosmically astounding and at least AS tender as all of the above. Read it while listening to...[URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Harriett on March 05, 2020

I liked the writing: these characters were presented in full, Hollywood talk ("love Hollywood") which was fun to read. The plot is very up to date, and the setting is luxury.......more

Goodreads review by Seton on February 01, 2016

An ambitiously trashy tale that draws upon the usual Wagner tropes - lifestyles of the rich and malcontent intertwined with mysterious figures from the seedy Los Angeles underbelly. Wagner's expansive writing style creates a uniquely operatic slice-of-life; he drops names, satirizes pseudo-spiritual......more