Memorial

Summary: "MEMORIAL is set in a Los Angeles descended from Nathaniel West's and Joan Didion's but played for laughs as well as existential dread....Wagner is a very good writer, and MEMORIAL is filled with beautifully observed turns of phrase ('a big-voltage desexed smile like a nun gone to rut')....While his fans will find all the demonic intelligence and fun they expect, MEMORIAL might also attract a new cohort of readers w...ho want more than all-dark-comedy-all-the-time." [read more]