num_pages: 368
description: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE  A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition corruption and environmental collapse in a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality ( Time )LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE  ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE The New York Times Book Review Time Los Angeles Times The Philadelphia Inquirer Vulture Thrillist Literary HubAn urgent novel about our very near future and a deeply addictive pleasure.Katie Kitamura author of IntimaciesNovelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought wildfire and corporate corruption are everywhere and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carterthe cynical starlet of his filmand the two investigate the sun-scorched city where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood.Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present momenta bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts and a ghost story not of the past but of the near future ( The New York Times ).
language: English
title: Something New Under the Sun
publisher: Hogarth