by Sam Kashner
First published 2002
I cannot provide a synopsis for this book as no source material was provided to work from. While "The Bad & the Beautiful" by Sam Kashner was published in 2002 and is listed as fiction, I would need specific plot details, character information, or story elements from a source to craft an accurate synopsis that meets the requirements of opening with a concrete scene, naming the protagonist, and showing the central tension from inside the story.
Genres: fiction, drama, literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: character-study, unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
380 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown